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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.0ml

63 km SSE of Sagaponack, New York

· 7.1 km deep · released about 1,100 lb of TNT

10 km30 km60 km120 km N Suffolk County 85 kmWashington County 115 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 3.0 (ml)
Depth
7.1 km below the surface
Felt
188 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Suffolk County, 85 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 289 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 188 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,100 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 310,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 14,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 9,800× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 1,100 lb of TNT

Energy from the Gutenberg–Richter relation (log10E = 1.5M + 4.8), rounded to two figures; bar length is magnitude, which is already a logarithm of energy. Magnitudes of past earthquakes from the USGS catalogue.

Where

Epicentre 40.3980, -71.9855. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Suffolk County, NY 85 km (53 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Suffolk County
Washington County, RI 115 km (72 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Washington County
Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, CT 121 km (75 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region
South Central Connecticut Planning Region, CT 122 km (76 mi) SE of here earthquakes near South Central Connecticut Planning Region
Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, CT 135 km (84 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Greater Bridgeport Planning Region
Dukes County, MA 154 km (95 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Dukes County

Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.

Aftershocks so far

No further earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of . QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

On USGS

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