Stories from Thursday, November 18, 2021

Residents very close to Williamsville may have felt the ground shake a second time Wednesday night, but the force of the magnitude 2.5 aftershock was 50 times less than the main quake, according to researchers with the University of Memphis. A magnitude 4.0 earthquake was widely felt across Missouri, Arkansas and other parts of the region at 8:53 p.m. Wednesday, briefly alarming many residents who were confused by the rare larger quake...

Staff from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed safety inspections of both the Clearwater Lake and Wappapello Lake dams following Wednesday night’s earthquake in the region, something officials said is a routine safety procedure. “Following a local reported 4.0 magnitude earthquake, a precautionary walk-over inspection of all flood-damage reduction facilities at Wappapello Lake was completed on the morning of Nov. ...