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M 2.2md

10 km W of Maynard, Arkansas

· 22 km deep · released about 67 lb of TNT

10 km30 km60 km120 km N Randolph County 10 kmRipley County 28 kmLawrence County 44 kmOregon County 45 kmSharp County 50 kmGreene County 52 kmClay County 53 kmCarter County 58 kmButler County 63 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 2.2 (md)
Depth
22 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Randolph County, 10 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1851 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 67 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 230,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 160,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 14× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.2 about 67 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 36.4258, -91.0103. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Randolph County, AR 10 km (6 mi) N of here earthquakes near Randolph County
Ripley County, MO 28 km (17 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Ripley County
Lawrence County, AR 44 km (27 mi) N of here earthquakes near Lawrence County
Oregon County, MO 45 km (28 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Oregon County
Sharp County, AR 50 km (31 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Sharp County
Greene County, AR 52 km (33 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Greene County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 6 km N of Black Rock, Arkansas
  2. 2.1 8 km NE of Smithville, Arkansas
  3. 2.0 4 km NNW of Minturn, Arkansas
  4. 1.8 2 km SW of Ravenden, Arkansas
  5. 2.1 7 km E of Alton, Missouri
  6. 2.0 5 km N of Black Rock, Arkansas
  7. 1.7 3 km N of Black Rock, Arkansas
  8. 2.4 7 km SW of Ravenden, Arkansas
  9. 2.3 7 km SSW of Ravenden, Arkansas
  10. 2.0 4 km SW of Powhatan, Arkansas
  11. 2.1 5 km N of Black Rock, Arkansas
  12. 1.8 3 km N of Black Rock, Arkansas
  13. 2.1 9 km NNW of Ravenden Springs, Arkansas
  14. 1.8 2 km W of Imboden, Arkansas
  15. 2.0 Missouri-Arkansas border region

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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