We had calls in the newsroom from western Middle Tennessee from people who felt this.

Here’s the AP copy story on the event:

AP-TN-W–Earthquake-Arkansas

Mild quake felt across wide area of nation’s middle

MANILA, Ark. (AP) - A mild earthquake occurred this morning in
northeast Arkansas and was felt across a wide area of the nation’s
center including Tennessee. No major damage was reported.
The U-S Geological Survey reported that the magnitude
four-point-one quake occurred at seven-36 a-m. The tremor was
centered about 14 miles west of Blytheville.
People reported feeling it in Missouri, southern Illinois,
Kentucky, Tennessee and northern Mississippi besides Arkansas.
Gary Patterson is a geologist with the U-S-G-S Center for
Earthquake Research and Information at the University of Memphis.
He said the earthquake occurred in the New Madrid (MAD’rud) Seismic
Zone, where the strongest quakes ever to hit North America were
felt in 1811 and 1812, centered at New Madrid, Missouri.
Patterson said that because the quake was shallow — centered
about six miles below the earth’s surface — it was felt across a
wide area. Shallower earthquakes are generally felt by more people.
Smaller aftershocks were felt during the morning, including one
of magnitude two-point-oh shortly before ten a-m.

For more see the USGS page: http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/neic_xna5_l.html

For all earthquakes within the last 7 days see:
http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/bulletin.html

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