New Madrid Fault Update 2024. There are hundreds of minor earthquakes each year in missouri's new madrid seismic zone (nmsz), but most of them are too small for people living in the area to feel. Here's what the map looks like for the new madrid fault zone so far in 2024 according to the.

The average magnitude of an earthquake in that area being. Researchers have mapped out three currently active ancient fault lines — fissures in the earth’s crust — in the new madrid area that formed around 500 million years ago, at a time when the north american plate tried and failed.