NEW MADRID, Mo. (KFVS) - It has been an active week on the New Madrid fault line. There have been ten small earthquakes in the Bootheel this week alone, with magnitudes ranging from 1.8 to 3.0. At ...

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New Madrid Seismic Zone is the most active seismic area in the United States east of the Rocky Mountains. Getty Images/iStockphoto A swarm of earthquakes rattled along the New Madrid fault line ...

Some have raised the question if these smaller earthquakes could relieve some of the pressure from the New Madrid fault zone, decreasing the chance of a larger one. Pratt says it depends.