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M 2.0md

southeastern Missouri

· 5.8 km deep · released about 28 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mississippi County 16 kmBallard County 20 kmCarlisle County 23 kmAlexander County 29 kmPulaski County 30 kmScott County 34 kmHickman County 37 kmFulton County 44 kmMcCracken County 45 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (md)
Depth
5.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mississippi County, 16 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1361 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 28 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 540,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 380,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 34× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 28 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 36.9510, -89.2033. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mississippi County, MO 16 km (10 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Mississippi County
Ballard County, KY 20 km (13 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Ballard County
Carlisle County, KY 23 km (14 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Carlisle County
Alexander County, IL 29 km (18 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Alexander County
Pulaski County, IL 30 km (19 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Pulaski County
Scott County, MO 34 km (21 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Scott County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.8 9 km N of New Madrid, Missouri
  2. 1.6 9 km N of New Madrid, Missouri
  3. 1.6 Illinois-Kentucky border region
  4. 1.8 5 km NNE of Bandana, Kentucky
  5. 2.6 3 km ENE of Wilson City, Missouri
  6. 1.7 8 km SE of Matthews, Missouri
  7. 1.8 3 km S of East Prairie, Missouri
  8. 1.9 4 km WNW of Barlow, Kentucky
  9. 1.8 7 km N of New Madrid, Missouri
  10. 2.1 8 km W of East Prairie, Missouri
  11. 2.0 2 km NNE of Wilson City, Missouri
  12. 1.8 8 km ESE of Matthews, Missouri
  13. 1.9 8 km ESE of Matthews, Missouri
  14. 2.4 2 km ENE of Wilson City, Missouri
  15. 2.2 4 km NW of New Madrid, 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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