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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.5md

10 km N of Garland, Tennessee

· 12 km deep · released about 190 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lauderdale County 15 kmTipton County 21 kmMississippi County 27 kmHaywood County 45 kmDyer County 53 kmShelby County 57 kmPemiscot County 59 kmDunklin County 59 kmCrockett County 59 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 2.5 (md)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lauderdale County, 15 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3503 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 190 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 78,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 55,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4.9× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.5 about 190 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 35.6838, -89.7655. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lauderdale County, TN 15 km (9 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Lauderdale County
Tipton County, TN 21 km (13 mi) N of here earthquakes near Tipton County
Mississippi County, AR 27 km (17 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Mississippi County
Haywood County, TN 45 km (28 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Haywood County
Dyer County, TN 53 km (33 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Dyer County
Shelby County, TN 57 km (35 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Shelby County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 3 km E of Steele, Missouri
  2. 2.1 2 km ENE of Dell, Arkansas
  3. 2.3 4 km N of Blytheville, Arkansas
  4. 2.0 7 km ENE of Steele, Missouri
  5. 1.9 1 km W of Gosnell, Arkansas
  6. 2.2 southeastern Missouri
  7. 1.8 2 km NNE of Cooter, Missouri
  8. 2.7 7 km ENE of Steele, Missouri
  9. 1.8 7 km ENE of Steele, Missouri
  10. 2.2 5 km N of Blytheville, Arkansas
  11. 1.9 9 km SW of Caruthersville, Missouri
  12. 1.7 7 km ENE of Etowah, Arkansas
  13. 2.0 7 km ENE of Etowah, Arkansas
  14. 2.3 6 km ENE of Etowah, Arkansas
  15. 2.1 10 km W of Henning, Tennessee

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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