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M 2.7md

10 km W of Bardwell, Kentucky

· 6.3 km deep · released about 390 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Carlisle County 13 kmMississippi County 16 kmBallard County 23 kmHickman County 25 kmFulton County 35 kmPulaski County 39 kmAlexander County 41 kmMcCracken County 42 kmScott County 45 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 2.7 (md)
Depth
6.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Carlisle County, 13 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3719 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 390 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 39,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 28,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2.5× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.7 about 390 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 36.8652, -89.1220. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Carlisle County, KY 13 km (8 mi) W of here earthquakes near Carlisle County
Mississippi County, MO 16 km (10 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Mississippi County
Ballard County, KY 23 km (14 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Ballard County
Hickman County, KY 25 km (15 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Hickman County
Fulton County, KY 35 km (22 mi) N of here earthquakes near Fulton County
Pulaski County, IL 39 km (24 mi) S of here earthquakes near Pulaski County

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

Aftershocks so far

15 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.

  1. 2.2 4 km S of La Center, Kentucky
  2. 2.3 9 km N of New Madrid, Missouri
  3. 2.5 9 km W of Bardwell, Kentucky
  4. 2.8 9 km SSW of Wickliffe, Kentucky
  5. 2.7 9 km ESE of Wyatt, Missouri
  6. 1.8 5 km NNW of New Madrid, Missouri
  7. 1.7 6 km NNE of North Lilbourn, Missouri
  8. 1.8 7 km W of East Prairie, Missouri
  9. 1.6 7 km SSE of New Madrid, Missouri
  10. 2.0 7 km SSE of New Madrid, Missouri
  11. 2.8 8 km WNW of East Prairie, Missouri
  12. 1.6 10 km SE of New Madrid, Missouri
  13. 1.9 3 km W of Tamms, Illinois
  14. 2.2 9 km N of New Madrid, Missouri
  15. 2.5 9 km ESE of Wyatt, Missouri

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.

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