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M 2.8md

1 km SSW of Peerless Park, Missouri

· 7.9 km deep · released about 550 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N St. Louis County 13 kmSt. Louis city 25 kmJefferson County 30 kmSt. Charles County 32 kmMonroe County 39 kmSt. Clair County 50 kmFranklin County 52 kmMadison County 62 kmJersey County 62 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.8 (md)
Depth
7.9 km below the surface
Felt
4323 reports · strongest reported intensity V
Nearest
St. Louis County, 13 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 769 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 4323 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 550 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 28,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 19,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.7× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.8 about 550 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 38.5290, -90.4997. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
St. Louis County, MO 13 km (8 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near St. Louis County
St. Louis city, MO 25 km (16 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near St. Louis city
Jefferson County, MO 30 km (19 mi) N of here earthquakes near Jefferson County
St. Charles County, MO 32 km (20 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near St. Charles County
Monroe County, IL 39 km (25 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Monroe County
St. Clair County, IL 50 km (31 mi) W of here earthquakes near St. Clair County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 6 km SSW of Valmeyer, Illinois
  2. 2.4 3 km ESE of Fenton, Missouri
  3. 1.7 3 km WNW of Olympian Village, Missouri
  4. 2.3 4 km S of Valmeyer, Illinois
  5. 2.3 4 km E of Herculaneum, Missouri
  6. 2.6 1 km S of Old Monroe, Missouri
  7. 2.5 eastern 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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