Keep in mind this is highest ever, not a combination of frequency and magnitude.
California has a much higher frequency of quakes, and they have multiple high magnitude quakes on a fairly regular basis.
Missouri's highest scoring quakes were from the early 1800s. They don't have frequent high magnitude quakes in the recent past.
So if you want to experience a scary quake within the next year your best option is to go to California.
So Missouri is about due for a serious earthquake and the building over 10 stories and the corn will be devastated.
Yeah the New Madrid fault also shows another issue with the map - it's measured by epicenter. Several of the New Madrid earthquakes were worse than 4.7 in parts of Tennessee, but those are ignored.
Definitely not. The geology of California and the rest of the PNW is wild. I suspect this map only shows the strongest recorded events. There are heaps of geological evidence that the PNW regularly experiences 9.0+ thrust fault earthquakes, but the timescales on which they happen are way outside how long we've been measuring this stuff. Check out Full Rip 9.0 if you want to read more about it.
WI just had a 2.9 magnitude, 24.2 miles off the coast of Sturgeon Bay!
[Earthquake recorded off Sturgeon Bay
](https://www.wbay.com/2024/08/02/earthquake-recorded-off-sturgeon-bay/)
