
At 4:37 a.m. local time, a magnitude-5.2 earthquake rumbled across southern Illinois, producing a rude awakening for people across the Midwest. The focus of the temblor was about 11.6 kilometers deep, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
The earthquake’s epicenter, seven kilometers north-northeast of Bellmont, Ill., is in the Ozark Dome region of the Illinois Basin, which covers parts of Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri and Arkansas. Earthquakes have occurred periodically in the region, with the most powerful a magnitude-5.4 earthquake in southern Illinois in 1968, according to USGS.
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