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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

7 km SSE of Ridgely, Tennessee

· 8.2 km deep · released about 8.7 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (md)
Depth
8.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lake County, 15 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 123 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 8.7 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 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 110× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 8.7 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 36.2043, -89.4417. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lake County, TN 15 km (9 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Lake County
Dyer County, TN 17 km (11 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Dyer County
Pemiscot County, MO 31 km (19 mi) E of here earthquakes near Pemiscot County
Obion County, TN 32 km (20 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Obion County
Fulton County, KY 45 km (28 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Fulton County
New Madrid County, MO 47 km (29 mi) SSE 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

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

  1. 1.7 2 km NNE of Howardville, Missouri
  2. 1.6 7 km SE of Marston, Missouri
  3. 2.0 7 km S of Ridgely, Tennessee
  4. 1.8 6 km NW of Ridgely, Tennessee
  5. 1.7 4 km NW of Marston, Missouri
  6. 1.7 7 km NW of Ridgely, Tennessee
  7. 1.7 5 km W of Tiptonville, Tennessee
  8. 1.7 7 km ESE of Marston, Missouri
  9. 2.2 7 km SSW of Catron, Missouri
  10. 1.8 3 km ENE of Marston, Missouri
  11. 1.8 3 km ENE of Marston, Missouri
  12. 1.9 5 km ENE of Marston, Missouri
  13. 2.1 6 km NW of Tiptonville, Tennessee
  14. 1.9 1 km N of Marston, Missouri
  15. 2.0 5 km NE of Caruthersville, 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 2026-04-23 — it released about 3,500 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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