Did you feel it? The earthquake occurred at more than 10 miles on a fenton.
Fenton, Mo. – An earthquake shook the ground far under Fenton, Missouri, early Friday morning, but it was probably not felt by many residents.
The US Geological Survey confirmed that an earthquake of 2.4 magnitude had occurred at more than 10 miles under the community south of Saint-Louis around 5:30 am, the earthquake took place almost exactly a week after an earthquake of magnitude 1.7 occurred at around 137 miles in the south near the Bertrand community.
Unlike the small earthquake of Bertrand, the earthquake on Friday morning took place far north of the seismic area of New Madrid, which is a series of defects, or fractures between two blocks of rocks, which go up and descend the Mississippi valley and have had a seismic activity in progress for centuries. The area has also recently been the center of the theories of the baseless apocalyptic conspiracy.
Friday morning’s earthquake is not considered a “felt” earthquake, or earthquakes that people feel, according to the USGS. The size of an earthquake is determined by “the magnitude”, or the amount of energy released by an earthquake at its source, and “intensity”, or the effects of the tremor on people and structures. Unlike the scale, the intensity can vary considerably from one place to another for a given earthquake. Intensity values are generally, but not always higher near the origin of an earthquake and decrease with the distance from the source.
“As a rule, people say they feel larger earthquakes than magnitude 3.0,” said USGS on the survey website. “The magnitude, the location and the depth of an earthquake, and the above -icking soil conditions determine how much a particular event can be largely and strongly made.”
Due to the note of less than 3.0 magnifications for the earthquake on Friday and the fact that it happened underground, few people probably felt tremors.
A distributor of the Fenton Fire Protection District, however, told 5 to you on Friday morning that he had heard something which, according to them, was a rupture or a thunder at that time.
USGS officials recommend that close to an earthquake measured to submit relationships to their “Have you felt it?” Web page, even if they did not feel the earthquake. The responses fill the gaps between the instruments that record the tremors and contribute to more complete assessments of earthquakes.
Click here to submit a report to the USGS “Did you feel it?” Web page.
