3.3 Tremblor in Arkansas!

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== PRELIMINARY EARTHQUAKE REPORT ==



Region:                            ARKANSAS
Geographic coordinates:            36.078N,  91.208W
Magnitude:                        3.3 M
Depth:                            5 km
Universal Time (UTC):             20 Jan 2010  21:18:44
Time near the Epicenter:          20 Jan 2010  15:18:44
Local standard time in your area: 20 Jan 2010  15:18:44

Location with respect to nearby cities:
   8 km (5 miles) W (266 degrees) of Powhatan, AR
   9 km (5 miles) E (91 degrees) of Smithville, AR
   9 km (6 miles) NNE (26 degrees) of Lynn, AR
 155 km (96 miles) NW (314 degrees) of Memphis, TN
 296 km (184 miles) SSW (197 degrees) of St. Louis, MO

[skillsweather]

wow i tell you i think 2012 thing is real now. i mean they said the poles under ground will switch causing the biggest storms, earthquakes, hurricanes and everything. in around a months time were getting a bunch of earthquakes. let the destruction begin! 

[Kevin]

wow i tell you i think 2012 thing is real now. i mean they said the poles under ground will switch causing the biggest storms, earthquakes, hurricanes and everything. in around a months time were getting a bunch of earthquakes. let the destruction begin! 

I sure hope that was a joke...

Either way...pretty small and a generally regular occurrence for the NMSZ...

[skillsweather]

well i mean i dont want people to die like in haiti but really never experianced an earthquake. i would like to see what a like 4.0 feels like that shouldnt kill no one.

[Kevin]

Official report from MEG...

EARTHQUAKE REPORT
RELAYED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
453 PM CST WED JAN 20 2010

AN EARTHQUAKE HAS BEEN FELT BY MANY PEOPLE IN THE LAWRENCE COUNTY
ARKANSAS AREA IN NORTHEAST ARKANSAS. SLIGHT DAMAGE HAS BEEN
REPORTED TO INCLUDE OBJECTS FALLING FROM SHELVES. MINOR SHAKING WAS
FELT IN VEHICLES AND HOUSES.

THE UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY REPORTS A MAGNITUDE 3.3
EARTHQUAKE OCCURRED AT 319 PM CST 3 MILES WEST-NORTHWEST OF LYNN
ARKANSAS OR 36 MILES WEST-NORTHWEST OF JONESBORO ARKANSAS.

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JCL

[Clay]

well i mean i dont want people to die like in haiti but really never experianced an earthquake. i would like to see what a like 4.0 feels like that shouldnt kill no one.

Nashville experienced a tremor a couple years ago one winter. I remember waking up in the middle of the night during it and thinking it was a thunderstorm until I looked out and realized skies were clear. I didn't think anything about it, went back to sleep and saw the story the next morning on the news. I then realized what it was. It was centered near Louisville. Anyone else remember?

[Charles L.]

Last April the 5.2 earthquake in IL was felt here and I woke up right before it hit and heard the roof above me pop and the whole ground shake. Pretty cool experience...

[WFayetteTN]

in the last 10 years, Ive felt 2 earthquakes. The one in Greenbriar, AR late at night I felt while sitting on my couch in West Memphis, AR while on the phone with a friend in a dorm room in Fayetteville, AR who also experienced it.
Also I felt the Fort Payne, AL quake back in '02, shortly after I moved to Fayette County, TN.
When I was a baby there was a quite substantial one in this area in the mid 70's. My mom was at the grocery store and it lost power.
FEMA was in the area back in the summer doing some quake prep drills, but at the same time the news was reporting that the zone has grown dormant and will never produce again. I dont think anybody really knows.  

[InMemphis]

I have heard stories of the quake that took place in the 70's. My grandmother in Memphis was on the phone with my aunt in Dyersburg and they both felt it.

[Sbeagles]

Last April the 5.2 earthquake in IL was felt here and I woke up right before it hit and heard the roof above me pop and the whole ground shake. Pretty cool experience...

I remember that one. We even felt it all the way down here although it was very very minor. I was watching tv and felt the slightest vibration and saw a picture above the tv shift just a little bit. I honestly thought I was crazy until I saw it on the news the next morning. I barely noticed it but it was pretty cool none the less.

[Thundersnow]

There was apparently one in the late 60s (1968, I think) that was felt strongly in Nashville.  That was before my time, but my family remembers it.  My grandparents' porch separated from the house, and my grandmother was hanging clothes on the clotheline outside, and she even felt it (said she felt dizzy and almost fell down).  Mom was in the house and heard the dishes rattling and saw pictures moving on the wall.

I heard someone say one time that the water in their well smell sulfurous after the quake.

My uncle was somewhere (I think a doctor's office), and they felt it there.  He was in college at the time, actually taking a geology course, and he knew what it was and told the others there what it was.

I would have to look up the records, but I believe that was about a 5 on the Richter Scale located in southern IL, as I recall.