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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.1md

4 km S of Puxico, Missouri

· 5.8 km deep · released about 1,200 lb of TNT

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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 3.1 (md)
Depth
5.8 km below the surface
Felt
75 reports · strongest reported intensity V
Nearest
Stoddard County, 20 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 300 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 75 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,200 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 280,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 12,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 8,800× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.1 about 1,200 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.3× more

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 36.9058, -90.1662. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Stoddard County, MO 20 km (13 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Stoddard County
Butler County, MO 30 km (19 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Butler County
Wayne County, MO 34 km (21 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Wayne County
Bollinger County, MO 48 km (30 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Bollinger County
Scott County, MO 55 km (34 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Scott County
New Madrid County, MO 57 km (36 mi) NW of here earthquakes near New Madrid 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. 2.1 6 km W of Parma, Missouri
  4. 1.9 6 km W of Parma, Missouri
  5. 1.8 4 km S of Bernie, Missouri
  6. 2.9 14 km SSW of Williamsville, Missouri
  7. 2.3 8 km WSW of Bernie, Missouri
  8. 2.4 7 km W of Williamsville, Missouri
  9. 2.6 12 km E of Williamsville, Missouri
  10. 1.6 8 km NNE of Parma, Missouri
  11. 1.8 2 km NNW of Parma, Missouri
  12. 2.6 5 km SW of Puxico, Missouri
  13. 2.3 1 km W of Risco, 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 25 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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