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M 2.5md

4 km WSW of Delta, Missouri

· 15 km deep · released about 150 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Scott County 24 kmCape Girardeau County 24 kmBollinger County 26 kmAlexander County 38 kmStoddard County 39 kmPulaski County 58 kmUnion County 58 kmMississippi County 58 kmPerry 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
15 km below the surface
Felt
19 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Scott County, 24 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3440 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 19 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 150 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 5.8 100,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 72,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 6.5× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.5 about 150 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 37.1805, -89.7812. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Scott County, MO 24 km (15 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Scott County
Cape Girardeau County, MO 24 km (15 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Cape Girardeau County
Bollinger County, MO 26 km (16 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Bollinger County
Alexander County, IL 38 km (24 mi) W of here earthquakes near Alexander County
Stoddard County, MO 39 km (25 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Stoddard County
Pulaski County, IL 58 km (36 mi) W of here earthquakes near Pulaski County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 12 km ENE of Greenville, Missouri
  2. 1.8 6 km S of Bertrand, Missouri
  3. 1.9 6 km WNW of Cape Girardeau, Missouri
  4. 2.6 5 km SW of Puxico, Missouri
  5. 1.6 11 km WNW of Jonesboro, Illinois
  6. 3.1 4 km S of Puxico, Missouri
  7. 1.7 5 km SSE of Bertrand, Missouri
  8. 2.1 4 km N of Marquand, Missouri
  9. 2.0 3 km ESE of Dexter, Missouri
  10. 2.3 5 km SSW of Charleston, Missouri
  11. 1.6 3 km WNW of Mill Creek, Illinois
  12. 2.1 1 km WSW of Mill Creek, Illinois
  13. 1.9 4 km SSE of Bertrand, Missouri
  14. 1.9 3 km SE of Bertrand, Missouri
  15. 2.0 3 km SSW of McClure, Illinois

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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