TUCKERMAN -- The U.S. Geological Survey reported a small earthquake Friday northwest of Tuckerman, but no one felt it, officials said.
The survey said the magnitude-2.1 quake occurred at 12:22 p.m. Friday about 10 miles northwest of the Jackson County city. A dispatcher for the Jackson County sheriff's office said he hadn't received any calls about it.
Tuckerman City Clerk Pam Cawthon said she was unaware of the tremor, and city officials had not heard about it, either.
Generally, earthquakes with magnitudes of 2.5 or less are not felt.
On Wednesday, a magnitude-3.6 earthquake on the New Madrid Seismic Zone and centered near Cooter, Mo., just north of Blytheville, was felt in six states. That quake was unrelated.
The Tuckerman-area earthquake was the third in that area in the past 17 months. A magnitude-1.9 quake rumbled beneath Alicia in Lawrence County on Nov. 17, 2013. Three weeks later, on Dec. 4, 2013, the U.S. Geological Survey recorded a magnitude-2.2 quake nearby. Alicia is about 15 miles north of Tuckerman.
State Desk on 04/04/2015