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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.5md

7 km S of Williamsville, Missouri

· 14 km deep · released about 160 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Wayne County 25 kmButler County 25 kmCarter County 35 kmRipley County 40 kmStoddard County 54 kmClay County 61 kmReynolds County 63 kmBollinger County 66 kmMadison County 66 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
14 km below the surface
Felt
4 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Wayne County, 25 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1513 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 4 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 160 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 92,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 65,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 5.8× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.5 about 160 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 36.9052, -90.5533. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Wayne County, MO 25 km (15 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Wayne County
Butler County, MO 25 km (16 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Butler County
Carter County, MO 35 km (22 mi) E of here earthquakes near Carter County
Ripley County, MO 40 km (25 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Ripley County
Stoddard County, MO 54 km (34 mi) W of here earthquakes near Stoddard County
Clay County, AR 61 km (38 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Clay County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 14 km SE of Ellsinore, Missouri
  2. 2.1 12 km ENE of Greenville, Missouri
  3. 2.9 14 km SSW of Williamsville, Missouri
  4. 2.4 7 km W of Williamsville, Missouri
  5. 2.6 12 km E of Williamsville, Missouri
  6. 2.6 5 km SW of Puxico, Missouri
  7. 3.1 4 km S of Puxico, Missouri
  8. 2.9 12 km WSW of Grandin, Missouri
  9. 2.5 13 km SSW of Williamsville, Missouri
  10. 2.5 4 km E of Doniphan, Missouri
  11. 2.7 5 km E of Doniphan, Missouri
  12. 2.3 9 km ESE of Williamsville, Missouri
  13. 2.7 4 km ENE of Grandin, Missouri
  14. 2.4 13 km E of Williamsville, Missouri
  15. 3.2 10 km N of Van Buren, 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.0 on 2021-11-18 — it released about 180 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

On USGS

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