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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.5md

Missouri-Arkansas border region

· 12 km deep · released about 160 lb of TNT

10 km30 km60 km120 km N Carroll County 18 kmMadison County 22 kmNewton County 49 kmBoone County 51 kmWashington County 57 kmBenton County 58 kmBarry County 59 kmStone County 63 kmJohnson County 71 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
12 km below the surface
Felt
4 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Carroll County, 18 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1113 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 36.1937, -93.6367. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Carroll County, AR 18 km (11 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Carroll County
Madison County, AR 22 km (13 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Madison County
Newton County, AR 49 km (31 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Newton County
Boone County, AR 51 km (32 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Boone County
Washington County, AR 57 km (36 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Washington County
Benton County, AR 58 km (36 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Benton County

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

Aftershocks so far

1 earthquake has been recorded within 50 km since this one.

  1. 2.0 6 km S of Green Forest, Arkansas

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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