New Madrid quake = M2.7?
Posted by John Vidale on May 05, 2003 at 09:53:28:

Don,

This link seems to give 2.7 and 3 as the magnitude. (I got the link from page claiming
M5.1.)

There's a 2.9 listed on this page:
http://folkworm.ceri.memphis.edu/recenteqs/Maps/86-35.html
on the Alabama-Georgia border, probably it's this
event, and they did mess up the magnitude.

John