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M 1.6md

9 km NE of Etowah, Arkansas

· 7.8 km deep · released about 7.1 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mississippi County 9 kmDunklin County 42 kmCraighead County 43 kmLauderdale County 48 kmTipton County 49 kmGreene County 53 kmPoinsett County 53 kmPemiscot County 58 kmCrittenden County 67 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (md)
Depth
7.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mississippi County, 9 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 753 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 7.1 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,100,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,500,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.1 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 35.7835, -90.1547. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mississippi County, AR 9 km (6 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Mississippi County
Dunklin County, MO 42 km (26 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Dunklin County
Craighead County, AR 43 km (27 mi) E of here earthquakes near Craighead County
Lauderdale County, TN 48 km (30 mi) W of here earthquakes near Lauderdale County
Tipton County, TN 49 km (30 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Tipton County
Greene County, AR 53 km (33 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Greene County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 1 km WNW of Cooter, Missouri
  2. 4.0 1 km WNW of Cooter, Missouri
  3. 2.0 1 km NW of Cooter, Missouri
  4. 1.9 2 km WSW of Cooter, Missouri
  5. 2.2 1 km WNW of Cooter, Missouri
  6. 2.3 5 km SSW of Holland, Missouri
  7. 1.9 3 km NW of Dell, Arkansas
  8. 2.4 2 km ESE of Steele, Missouri
  9. 1.9 5 km W of Dell, Arkansas
  10. 1.7 2 km NNE of Cooter, Missouri
  11. 2.1 5 km ENE of Steele, Missouri
  12. 1.8 1 km NNW of Cooter, Missouri
  13. 2.6 1 km NNW of Cooter, Missouri
  14. 1.6 4 km E of Steele, Missouri
  15. 2.2 1 km NNW of Cooter, 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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