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M 2.3md

2 km WSW of Lake City, Arkansas

· 23 km deep · released about 72 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Craighead County 16 kmPoinsett County 34 kmGreene County 36 kmMississippi County 37 kmDunklin County 52 kmClay County 62 kmLawrence County 63 kmCross County 65 kmCrittenden County 70 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (md)
Depth
23 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Craighead County, 16 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 589 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 72 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 210,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 150,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 13× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 72 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 35.8113, -90.4573. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Craighead County, AR 16 km (10 mi) E of here earthquakes near Craighead County
Poinsett County, AR 34 km (21 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Poinsett County
Greene County, AR 36 km (22 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Greene County
Mississippi County, AR 37 km (23 mi) W of here earthquakes near Mississippi County
Dunklin County, MO 52 km (32 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Dunklin County
Clay County, AR 62 km (38 mi) S of here earthquakes near Clay County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 6 km WNW of Victoria, Arkansas
  2. 1.8 7 km WSW of Marked Tree, Arkansas
  3. 1.9 1 km W of Blytheville, Arkansas
  4. 1.9 3 km N of Etowah, Arkansas
  5. 1.9 3 km NW of Dell, Arkansas
  6. 1.9 5 km W of Dell, Arkansas
  7. 2.0 4 km NE of Dell, Arkansas
  8. 2.4 3 km ENE of Dell, Arkansas
  9. 2.2 6 km NNE of Dell, Arkansas
  10. 2.1 7 km WSW of Etowah, Arkansas
  11. 2.2 5 km ENE of Dell, Arkansas
  12. 3.1 3 km SW of Blytheville, Arkansas
  13. 2.6 3 km SW of Blytheville, Arkansas
  14. 1.8 5 km S of Caraway, Arkansas
  15. 2.0 2 km SE of Dell, Arkansas

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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