Wabash Valley Seismic Zone

9 people along the Illinois/Indiana border got quite a surprise late Thanksgiving night.

Someone on a tractor in southern Illinois got a surprise jolt Thursday morning.

This has been a year of strange earthquake locations in Illinois and Missouri already. Saturday night was no exception as a not insignificant quake was confirmed by the USGS to shake the southeastern part of Illinois.

There's been yet another earthquake in Illinois in 2024 and it's happened in a brand new place. The quake confirmed by the USGS was located to the southeast of the St. Louis, Missouri area near Pinckneyville, Illinois.

Did you know that the southeastern part of Illinois is now a likely first-strike target? You'll likely never believe the reason why.

I've learned over the years that some of the weirdest events have a reason for happening if you're willing to dig deep enough to figure out why. That's true for a series of recent earthquakes in Illinois that seemed to happen in unexpected places. There's a USGS map which shows it's not weird at all.

Well, this was certainly a new place for an earthquake in Illinois where earthquakes don't normally happen and definitely aren't normally felt. It happened late Saturday night according to the USGS.

Something strange is happening in southeastern Illinois. After 2 earthquakes struck the region yesterday, another slightly larger quake has just been reported and it also was widely felt.