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M 2.3md

11 km E of Booneville, Mississippi

· 13 km deep · released about 77 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Prentiss County 8 kmTishomingo County 21 kmAlcorn County 29 kmItawamba County 42 kmLee County 46 kmTippah County 46 kmUnion County 55 kmColbert County 59 kmFranklin County 59 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (md)
Depth
13 km below the surface
Felt
40 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Prentiss County, 8 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2416 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 40 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 77 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 200,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 140,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 12× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 77 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 34.6498, -88.4382. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Prentiss County, MS 8 km (5 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Prentiss County
Tishomingo County, MS 21 km (13 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Tishomingo County
Alcorn County, MS 29 km (18 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Alcorn County
Itawamba County, MS 42 km (26 mi) N of here earthquakes near Itawamba County
Lee County, MS 46 km (28 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Lee County
Tippah County, MS 46 km (28 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Tippah County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.5 5 km ENE of Booneville, Mississippi
  2. 2.1 11 km W of Paden, Mississippi

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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