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M 3.2md

5 km SE of Tiptonville, Tennessee

· 4.4 km deep · released about 1,800 lb of TNT

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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 3.2 (md)
Depth
4.4 km below the surface
Felt
26 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Lake County, 5 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1345 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 26 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,800 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 8,200× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 5,800× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1,800 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.9× more

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 36.3435, -89.4330. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lake County, TN 5 km (3 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Lake County
Obion County, TN 26 km (16 mi) W of here earthquakes near Obion County
Fulton County, KY 32 km (20 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Fulton County
Dyer County, TN 32 km (20 mi) N of here earthquakes near Dyer County
New Madrid County, MO 34 km (21 mi) SE of here earthquakes near New Madrid County
Pemiscot County, MO 35 km (22 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Pemiscot County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 southeastern Missouri
  2. 2.0 6 km ENE of Steele, Missouri
  3. 2.1 7 km SE of Marston, Missouri
  4. 1.6 5 km SE of Marston, Missouri
  5. 2.0 4 km NW of Marston, Missouri
  6. 3.1 7 km S of Catron, Missouri
  7. 1.6 7 km NW of Ridgely, Tennessee
  8. 1.6 southeastern Missouri
  9. 1.7 5 km NW of Ridgely, Tennessee
  10. 1.7 3 km ESE of Ridgely, Tennessee
  11. 2.0 6 km SSE of Ridgely, Tennessee
  12. 1.7 7 km NNW of Tiptonville, Tennessee
  13. 1.8 southeastern Missouri
  14. 1.8 5 km SE of Marston, Missouri
  15. 1.6 5 km ESE of Marston, 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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