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M 2.0md

0 km S of Commerce, Missouri

· 11 km deep · released about 30 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Alexander County 9 kmScott County 16 kmPulaski County 29 kmCape Girardeau County 34 kmMississippi County 38 kmBallard County 40 kmUnion County 41 kmCarlisle County 53 kmBollinger County 55 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (md)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Alexander County, 9 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3069 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 30 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 32× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 30 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 37.1507, -89.4447. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Alexander County, IL 9 km (6 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Alexander County
Scott County, MO 16 km (10 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Scott County
Pulaski County, IL 29 km (18 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Pulaski County
Cape Girardeau County, MO 34 km (21 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Cape Girardeau County
Mississippi County, MO 38 km (24 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Mississippi County
Ballard County, KY 40 km (25 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Ballard 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. 1.6 8 km SE of Matthews, Missouri
  2. 1.8 6 km S of Bertrand, Missouri
  3. 1.6 8 km ESE of Matthews, Missouri
  4. 1.9 6 km WNW of Cape Girardeau, Missouri
  5. 1.6 8 km ESE of Matthews, Missouri
  6. 1.6 11 km WNW of Jonesboro, Illinois
  7. 1.7 5 km SSE of Bertrand, Missouri
  8. 1.6 7 km W of East Prairie, Missouri
  9. 1.8 4 km SSE of Matthews, Missouri
  10. 2.2 8 km ESE of Matthews, Missouri
  11. 2.0 3 km NE of Ullin, Illinois
  12. 2.2 8 km SE of Matthews, Missouri
  13. 2.4 2 km NNE of Wilson City, Missouri
  14. 2.3 5 km SSW of Charleston, Missouri
  15. 1.6 3 km WNW of Mill Creek, 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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