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At 09:12, a.m.
Local time there in Arkansas, they
had a magnet to 3.1 earthquake.
This is one of the larger ones
they've had there in a while.
You might be surprised that this is part
of the New Madrid, Reelfoot system.
It's also a part of the Cambrian Rift system.
155 people said they felt this earthquake so far.
Here's a felt report put up by USGS.
We got Jackson all the way over here by Tennessee and
then way up over here to the northwest in Nevada.
Can you believe that?
Barton?
It looks like we got Joplin down here.
It says Lamar, intensity level three, which really
surprised me, which means it was felt indoors,
but not always recognized as an earthquake.
Standing automobiles rocked slightly and it was
like a vibration of a passing truck.
Most of the people said it was intensity
level four, which means it was felt indoors
by many, outdoor by a few.
If they were still sleeping, it
would have woken them up.
Dishes, windows and doors were disturbed.
They were rattling, and automobiles
would have been rocking noticeably.
It was actually probably a magnet to
3.2 or a little bit larger.
They may, and I only say may, upgrade
this earthquake as more felt reports come in.
Intensity level four for Smithville.
Portora, intensity level four.
What else we got?
Strawberry, intensity level four.
Newark. Interesting.
They said it was only at two.
Intensity level three for Batesville.
All right, so here we have
a map showing Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas.
And I'll make that a little bit bigger.
Mississippi, Tennessee.
Let's go larger.
And RFR.
That is the real foot fault system.
That runs all the way up there,
the New Mag Rid fault system.
All right, up over here, we have
the Saint Francisco Mountain volcanic field member.
That was originally an island out there in
the ocean prior to when the continents moved.
If you can see it all drawn out in red.
Here the New Madrid Fault system.
And then here we have the
Cambrian fault system, or Rift.
The Real Foot, New Madrid and the Cambrinian Rift were all
areas that originally was going to open up to allow the
ocean to allow the sea to come in here.
Yeah, this is one of the larger
earthquakes they've had in a while.
We'll zoom into that location.
There was one aftershock a magnitude
1.7, which is right there.
And there's the 3.1.
Like I said, it was actually a
3.2, maybe even a little larger.
Interesting seismic signature.
Here we have a spectrogram.
Look how quiet right in the middle.
Let's go to the signature now.
This is from one of three different
monitors that I have over there.
And let's pull this, if I can,
to see what was going on.
If I can make it larger for you.
Yeah, rounded tops.
Now, being a rift system, just like the ring
of fire out there in the Pacific Ocean.
That's areas of Volcanism where they often
have magma that's trying to come up.
And that did that too, with this, which isn't surprising
because we do have ancient volcanoes in this area.
Let's bring it out.
And I'll go back up over here.
Drawn out yellow.
Yeah, this is a chain of volcanoes.
It was a long time ago when it was out
in the ocean and it was tropical, kind of like
what they have there in the swamplands of Florida.
And then many of you would know.
Let's see here.
Up over here is Dyke intrusion lava.
And there's another ancient volcano over here.
Hickstone.
There it is.
Hickstone yeah, that's another ancient volcano.
Now, as our Earth magnetic field weakens,
we're going to see more earthquakes.
And I've noticed over the last few years
how these rift systems have become reactivated.
Many of you will know that the US
Navy's got maps where this roof system actually
opens up and this whole area is underwater.
So going back to this map here, you
see the real foot system and then the
Cambrian system, which both go through this location.
It's an area of stretching where it's pulling apart.
And there is one felt report posted on EMSC.
I really like it when you guys send your reports
to Emse because we can actually see what people experience
where USGS doesn't tell us what they experienced.
Now, they were 23 km southeast from where the earthquake
occurred, which is about 14 miles, and they said they
felt the tremor and seen their lights moving.
I thought I would check the planetary KP index.
We've been getting hit with solar flares and
you can see it here on the 20th.
Well, it doesn't show it here, but it
actually was all the way up to six.
And it looks like we got some
more because it's rising up again.
We're getting some more impacts today from coronal
mass ejections that came off of the sun.
Here's the three different data monitors that I downloaded
and all three are showing this same sound got
so loud during that time, the equipment couldn't pick
up what was going on during that earthquake.
Interesting.
Now the second one, which they are saying was
A 1.7, actually came in as a 2.7.
There's a spectrogram.
And I'll go to the seismic signature, see
if I can make it bigger for you.
Yeah, interesting. Look at that.
Let me pull that.
See rounded tops?
Yeah.
Here's the stream view.
This here is the monitor I just showed you, BVAR.
This one here is B-O-A-R.
It comes in fairly small.
And then we got another one.
This is B-R-O-M.
Fairly small.
And I don't really see anything
too significant since these two quakes.
But you always have a chance they
could be four shocks or something much
larger whenever there's large earthquakes on Sunday.
Yeah, there's been a historic past
tense of earthquakes around the world.
Large ones have happened on Sunday. I don't know.
Just kind of stuck in my mind.
But this is the largest one that they've had
anywhere in this area in quite a while now.
There was a 3.6 down here, 6.3
and 1843, and then a 3.6.
Now, that was two years ago, August 30.
Today is August 21. Yeah. Interesting.
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