Recent Earthquakes.

1. Most earthquakes occur on the edge of the Pacific Ocean.

2. The reason most earthquakes occur there is because most faults are there.

3. This area is called the Circum-Pacific Belt, which better known as the "Ring of Fire".

4. The earthquake closest to North Carolina occured in southeast Missouri.

5. An earthquake occured on September 3 at 1:28:59 UTC in southeast Missouri. UTC is the international time zone. The magnitude was 2.7. The depth was 5.8 miles. It occured on the New Madrid Fault.