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Earthquakes in Kentucky

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1 quake of M1.5 or larger in the last 7 days in Kentucky. Normal for here is 2 to 5 in a week.

Compared against Kentucky's own 10 years · 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. The shaded band is the magnitude a day's largest quake normally falls in here (M1.7–M2.3), from this place's own 10-year record. A mark above the band is a bigger day than usual.

Live · last 7 days

Latest earthquakes in Kentucky

None in Kentucky 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 37.776, -85.430 — 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 Kentucky

MagnitudeWhenWhere
M 3.8 6 km S of Ridgely, Tennessee
M 3.8 2 km NE of Fincastle, Tennessee
M 3.8 4 km N of Bellmont, Illinois
M 3.8 4 km NW of Ohlman, Illinois
M 3.7 11 km NNW of Richlands, Virginia
M 3.7 12 km NNW of Dyersburg, Tennessee
M 3.6 4 km SW of Caruthersville, Missouri
M 3.6 9 km ESE of Wyatt, Missouri

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

Counties in Kentucky

After an earthquake here