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M 1.7md

2 km N of Blytheville, Arkansas

· 12 km deep · released about 9.3 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (md)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mississippi County, 24 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 318 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 9.3 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,600,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,100,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 100× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 9.3 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 35.9537, -89.9142. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mississippi County, AR 24 km (15 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Mississippi County
Dunklin County, MO 26 km (16 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Dunklin County
Pemiscot County, MO 31 km (19 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Pemiscot County
Lauderdale County, TN 33 km (21 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Lauderdale County
Dyer County, TN 48 km (30 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Dyer County
Tipton County, TN 53 km (33 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Tipton County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 4 km SSE of Hayti, Missouri
  2. 2.0 1 km W of Cooter, Missouri
  3. 2.1 8 km SW of Caruthersville, Missouri
  4. 2.1 1 km WNW of Cooter, Missouri
  5. 4.0 1 km WNW of Cooter, Missouri
  6. 1.8 9 km SSE of Ridgely, Tennessee
  7. 2.0 1 km NW of Cooter, Missouri
  8. 1.9 2 km WSW of Cooter, Missouri
  9. 1.9 9 km ENE of Steele, Missouri
  10. 1.7 8 km W of Dyersburg, Tennessee
  11. 2.2 1 km WNW of Cooter, Missouri
  12. 2.3 5 km SSW of Holland, Missouri
  13. 1.9 3 km NW of Dell, Arkansas
  14. 1.5 6 km SSE of Ridgely, Tennessee
  15. 2.4 2 km ESE of Steele, 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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