A very faint minor earthquake occurred in the late evening hours on Tuesday, Oct. 11, on the southern Arkansas - Louisiana border near the town of El Dorado, Arkansas. El Dorado is approximately 88 miles east of Texarkana.
Would you be ready if a earthquake struck this region? Recently, the U.S. Geological Survey announced updates to it's U.S. National Seismic Hazard Maps which haven't been updated since 2008. You might be surprised at some of the earthquake prone areas that turned up including the state of Arkansas.