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Cooter, MO – Residents in Missouri’s Bootheel region may have felt a light jolt early Wednesday after a small earthquake was recorded just north of Cooter, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
The magnitude 2.6 earthquake struck at 6:50 a.m. CST about 1 kilometer north-northwest of Cooter, positioned near the Missouri–Arkansas state line within the New Madrid Seismic Zone — one of the most active seismic areas in the central United States. According to USGS, the quake originated at a depth of 9.0 kilometers…