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M 1.8md

9 km WSW of Tiptonville, Tennessee

· 12 km deep · released about 15 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.8 (md)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lake County, 7 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3407 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 15 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 730,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 65× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 15 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 36.3453, -89.5650. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lake County, TN 7 km (4 mi) W of here earthquakes near Lake County
Pemiscot County, MO 25 km (15 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Pemiscot County
New Madrid County, MO 29 km (18 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near New Madrid County
Dyer County, TN 36 km (22 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Dyer County
Obion County, TN 37 km (23 mi) W of here earthquakes near Obion County
Fulton County, KY 41 km (25 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Fulton County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 9 km NW of Tiptonville, Tennessee
  2. 1.7 4 km WNW of Marston, Missouri
  3. 1.8 7 km SE of Marston, Missouri
  4. 1.8 6 km NW of Ridgely, Tennessee
  5. 1.6 3 km NNW of Ridgely, Tennessee
  6. 1.7 2 km SSW of Ridgely, Tennessee
  7. 1.7 4 km NW of Marston, Missouri
  8. 2.5 6 km ENE of Steele, Missouri
  9. 1.8 4 km SSW of Caruthersville, Missouri
  10. 2.0 9 km ENE of Steele, Missouri
  11. 1.6 7 km ESE of Ridgely, Tennessee
  12. 2.0 4 km WSW of Howardville, Missouri
  13. 1.9 2 km WNW of Marston, Missouri
  14. 2.1 2 km NW of Marston, Missouri
  15. 2.3 4 km WSW of Howardville, 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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