QuakeIndex

Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.4md

2 km ENE of Wilson City, Missouri

· 6.1 km deep · released about 100 lb of TNT

Felt it? Tell USGS Check my area
10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mississippi County 14 kmCarlisle County 21 kmBallard County 22 kmAlexander County 32 kmPulaski County 33 kmHickman County 34 kmScott County 36 kmFulton County 42 kmMcCracken County 45 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 2.4 (md)
Depth
6.1 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Mississippi County, 14 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1254 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 100 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 150,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 110,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 9.4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 100 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 36.9272, -89.1967. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mississippi County, MO 14 km (9 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Mississippi County
Carlisle County, KY 21 km (13 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Carlisle County
Ballard County, KY 22 km (13 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Ballard County
Alexander County, IL 32 km (20 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Alexander County
Pulaski County, IL 33 km (20 mi) S of here earthquakes near Pulaski County
Hickman County, KY 34 km (21 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Hickman County

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

Aftershocks so far

14 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. 1.8 3 km WNW of New Madrid, Missouri
  12. 2.0 2 km NNE of Wilson City, Missouri
  13. 1.8 8 km ESE of Matthews, Missouri
  14. 1.9 8 km ESE of Matthews, 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.

On USGS

QuakeIndex does not issue warnings. For earthquake early warning see ShakeAlert.