More Earthquakes In The New Madrid Fault. What’s Going On?

Most people in the United States (and perhaps around the world) know only one fault line by name: the San Andreas Fault, which runs almost the entire length of California and is often said to be on the verge of triggering “the big one.”

However, for at least the past twenty years, geologists have been telling us something different… that the real danger for the USA, on a much higher level, comes from a seismic region that the media – busy emphasizing the threat that inevitably destroys Los Angeles in disaster movies – have paid very little attention to…

Yes, we’re talking about the New Madrid Seismic Zone, which has recently been shaken by a series of earthquakes: weak, but absolutely unsettling.

We’ll try to shed some light on this and answer an intriguing question that arises from examining the chronology of earthquakes in this area… namely: Do earthquakes have a preferred season to occur? And do those in New Madrid perhaps favor the winter?