LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – An earthquake in the Missouri bootheel on Thursday sent tremors into northeast Arkansas.
The U.S. Geological Survey said a magnitude 4.0 earthquake hit at one minute before noon just over a half mile west of Cooter, Missouri. Cooter is in the Missouri bootheel, just west of the Mississippi River.
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The USGS Shake Map shows that tremors from the earthquake were reported to have been felt as far away as Memphis and south of Jonesboro.
Officials with the Arkansas Division of Emergency Management have said previously that northeast Arkansas lies within the New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ), one of the most active seismic zones in the United States. The NMSZ is approximately 120 to 125 miles long, running through southeast Missouri into parts of Tennessee, Kentucky, and Illinois, officials said, and produces hundreds of small earthquakes every year…