QuakeIndex

Earthquakes in Mississippi

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Too few earthquakes here to say what is "normal"

Only 82 earthquakes of M1.5 or largerhave been recorded in Mississippi in the 10 years of record we hold, and most weeks have none. A QuakeIndex score is a percentile against this place's own weeks — and when almost every week is empty, that number would just be reporting whether anything happened at all, dressed up as a percentile. So we do not publish one.

This is a statement about Mississippi, not about our data: it is a quiet place. There have been none of M1.5 or larger in the last 7 days.

USGS catalogue · updated

The last 30 days

Aug 29 Sep 13 Sep 27
Each mark is a day's largest quake within range; its size is the magnitude. There is not yet enough history here to draw a normal range.

Live · last 7 days

Latest earthquakes in Mississippi

None in Mississippi in the latest snapshot we hold; the full 7 days load from USGS as this page opens.

Source USGS · snapshot of

Where this is

Centre 32.956, -89.645 — the mean of this state’s place centroids, from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Activity is measured across a rectangle drawn around the state, so a few earthquakes just over its border are counted too.

Largest on record in and around Mississippi

MagnitudeWhenWhere
M 3.7 8 km WNW of Hollandale, Mississippi
M 3.0 5 km NNE of Magee, Mississippi
M 2.9 11 km E of Pangburn, Arkansas
M 2.8 Mississippi
M 2.8 0 km WSW of Muscle Shoals, Alabama
M 2.6 11 km WSW of Union, Alabama
M 2.6 16 km W of Union, Alabama
M 2.5 1 km W of Belk, Alabama

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service · inside a rectangle drawn around Mississippi, which takes in some ground over its borders.

Counties in Mississippi

After an earthquake here