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M 1.8md

6 km WNW of Tiptonville, Tennessee

· 9.7 km deep · released about 15 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.8 (md)
Depth
9.7 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lake County, 8 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 773 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 15 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 730,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 65× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 15 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 36.3970, -89.5368. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lake County, TN 8 km (5 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Lake County
New Madrid County, MO 24 km (15 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near New Madrid County
Pemiscot County, MO 31 km (19 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Pemiscot County
Obion County, TN 35 km (22 mi) W of here earthquakes near Obion County
Fulton County, KY 36 km (22 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Fulton County
Dyer County, TN 40 km (25 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Dyer County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 3 km NNE of Ridgely, Tennessee
  2. 1.8 3 km NNE of Ridgely, Tennessee
  3. 2.0 3 km NNE of Ridgely, Tennessee
  4. 1.7 3 km NNE of Ridgely, Tennessee
  5. 2.1 3 km NNE of Ridgely, Tennessee
  6. 1.8 6 km ESE of Marston, Missouri
  7. 1.8 6 km SE of Marston, Missouri
  8. 1.9 3 km SSE of Pinhook, Missouri
  9. 2.0 4 km WSW of Marston, Missouri
  10. 3.2 1 km SSW of Caruthersville, Missouri
  11. 2.1 1 km NE of Ridgely, Tennessee
  12. 2.2 6 km W of Tiptonville, Tennessee
  13. 1.8 8 km NNW of Dyersburg, Tennessee
  14. 1.8 1 km N of Howardville, Missouri
  15. 1.5 3 km W 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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