Kentucky
Small 2.0 quake detected near Bandana on Labor Day
By West Kentucky Star staff
Sep. 04, 2023 | 09:02 PM
| BALLARD COUNTY
A small earthquake was detected Monday afternoon in Ballard County.
The U.S. Geological Survey in Memphis reported that the tremor was detected at 2:01 p.m. about four miles north- northeast of Bandana, just west of the Ballard-McCracken County line.
It had a preliminary magnitude of 2.0, at a depth of 3 miles.
Monday’s quake was actually the second of the summer detected in Ballard County. On July 1, a 1.9 tremor was reported in the Barlow Bottoms between Barlow, Kentucky and Mound City, Illinois.
Quakes of less than a 2.5 magnitude are generally not felt by humans.
USGS graphics: #1 is the local area in Ballard County where the quake occurred; #2 shows the quake’s relationship to the main body of the New Madrid Fault system.