An earthquake of Ml 2.2 occurred this afternoon in the region of
New Madrid. This appears to fill the gap in the sequence of earthquakes
marching across the U.S. and is more in keeping with a 2-day 7 degree
longitude change than was the Ml 3.2 in Kentucky.
Two predictors stated what seemed, to me, the obvious choice for the
next event, that a New Madrid earthquake was likely on July 26-27.
These were Kate (#8633):

Re: Earthquakes migrating to the east - what's next
Posted by Kate on July 24, 2001 at 15:12:46:

In Reply to: Re: Earthquakes migrating to the east - what's next posted by micha
el on July 24, 2001 at 14:11:10:

It's definately been interesting to watch this pattern so far. As far as
I'm concerned anyway :-) I'm wondering if there will be a 2.5-2.8 along the
New Madrid or will there be something similar in Ohio and then a few days
later one in New York.... "

and Barry (#8632):

Re: Earthquakes migrating to the east - what's next
Posted by Barry Davis on July 24, 2001 at 15:03:19:

In Reply to: Earthquakes migrating to the east - what's next posted
by Lowell on July 24, 2001 at 14:04:31:

Maybe New Madrid???? through Tennessee and into Northern Georgia????

This afternoon's event occurred as follows (CERI):

ML=2.2 2001/07/26 19:48:33 36.174N 89.438W 5.2 10 km SSE of Ridgely TN

matching both predictions. However Barry has the edge on this one, having
also gotten the earthquake in Tennessee yesterday.

By the way, there have been 7 events of Ml>=2 in the New Madrid region
this year, an average of about one per month, so they are more common
than the others we have been observing this week, but not an everyday
occurrence.

Round 3 of this prediction Marathon goes to Barry Davis - congratulations!!

For information on New Madrid and southeast U.S. earthquakes see:

http://folkworm.ceri.memphis.edu/recenteqs/Quakes/quakes0.html

• Earthquakes in the eastern/Central U.S.