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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.4md

13 km E of Williamsville, Missouri

· 0.7 km deep · released about 130 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Wayne County 17 kmButler County 28 kmStoddard County 42 kmCarter County 48 kmBollinger County 51 kmRipley County 55 kmMadison County 57 kmClay County 67 kmReynolds County 67 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
0.7 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Wayne County, 17 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1156 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 130 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 5.8 120,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 83,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 7.4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 130 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 36.9675, -90.4013. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Wayne County, MO 17 km (10 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Wayne County
Butler County, MO 28 km (17 mi) N of here earthquakes near Butler County
Stoddard County, MO 42 km (26 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Stoddard County
Carter County, MO 48 km (30 mi) E of here earthquakes near Carter County
Bollinger County, MO 51 km (32 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Bollinger County
Ripley County, MO 55 km (34 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Ripley County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 14 km SE of Ellsinore, Missouri
  2. 2.1 12 km ENE of Greenville, Missouri
  3. 2.9 14 km SSW of Williamsville, Missouri
  4. 2.3 8 km WSW of Bernie, Missouri
  5. 2.4 7 km W of Williamsville, Missouri
  6. 2.6 12 km E of Williamsville, Missouri
  7. 2.6 5 km SW of Puxico, Missouri
  8. 3.1 4 km S of Puxico, Missouri
  9. 2.0 3 km ESE of Dexter, Missouri
  10. 2.5 13 km SSW of Williamsville, Missouri
  11. 2.5 4 km E of Doniphan, Missouri
  12. 2.3 9 km ESE of Williamsville, Missouri
  13. 2.7 4 km ENE of Grandin, 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.0 on 2021-11-18 — it released about 230 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

On USGS

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