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Several small quakes in the Reelfoot Lake/Ridgely area over the last 24 hours.
Interesting. I don’t have the fault system layout in front of me- but that’s right around the intersection point of two legs of the fault zone in terms of where events are recorded along linear axes.... one that is oriented NE to SW and the other oriented NW to SE.
I always thought Crowley’s Ridge was an interesting feature. It’s such a linear ridge that rises out of the alluvial plain. It’s an interesting thing to come across when driving across the flatness of eastern AR.I recall reading theories about it anything from a “bank/bluff” left over from some ancient placement of the river system to perhaps some effect of the NMFZ.
I also remember that about the wildlife... apparently the flora and fauna on the ridge have more in common with the hills of TN than they do the nearby Ozarks.
FWIW- https://fox17.com/news/local/16-earthquakes-strike-tennessee-town-in-three-days