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M 1.8md

5 km E of Steele, Missouri

· 9.6 km deep · released about 13 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Pemiscot County 13 kmDunklin County 27 kmDyer County 33 kmLake County 37 kmLauderdale County 39 kmMississippi County 44 kmNew Madrid County 57 kmObion County 63 kmCrockett County 65 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.8 (md)
Depth
9.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Pemiscot County, 13 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3224 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 13 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 1,100,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 810,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 72× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 13 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 36.0927, -89.7673. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Pemiscot County, MO 13 km (8 mi) S of here earthquakes near Pemiscot County
Dunklin County, MO 27 km (17 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Dunklin County
Dyer County, TN 33 km (21 mi) W of here earthquakes near Dyer County
Lake County, TN 37 km (23 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Lake County
Lauderdale County, TN 39 km (24 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Lauderdale County
Mississippi County, AR 44 km (28 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Mississippi County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 5 km N of Blytheville, Arkansas
  2. 1.9 9 km SW of Caruthersville, Missouri
  3. 2.4 8 km SSE of Marston, Missouri
  4. 2.1 10 km W of Henning, Tennessee
  5. 1.7 7 km SE of Marston, Missouri
  6. 1.6 7 km E of Hayward, Missouri
  7. 1.6 7 km SE of Marston, Missouri
  8. 2.3 4 km SSE of Marston, Missouri
  9. 2.1 3 km SSW of Ridgely, Tennessee
  10. 1.8 8 km SW of Ridgely, Tennessee
  11. 2.5 9 km NE of Caruthersville, MO
  12. 1.6 4 km NW of Ridgely, Tennessee
  13. 2.4 1 km NNW of Blytheville, Arkansas
  14. 1.7 2 km SSE of Ridgely, Tennessee
  15. 1.7 0 km WSW of Ridgely, 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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