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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

12 km SSE of Ridgely, Tennessee

· 12 km deep · released about 7.8 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (md)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Dyer County, 12 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 104 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 7.8 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 1,900,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 120× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.8 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 36.1530, -89.4592. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Dyer County, TN 12 km (8 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Dyer County
Lake County, TN 20 km (13 mi) S of here earthquakes near Lake County
Pemiscot County, MO 30 km (19 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Pemiscot County
Obion County, TN 36 km (23 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Obion County
Lauderdale County, TN 46 km (29 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Lauderdale County
Crockett County, TN 47 km (29 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Crockett County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.3 9 km SSE of Marston, Missouri
  2. 1.4 8 km NW of Tiptonville, Tennessee
  3. 2.1 7 km ENE of Steele, Missouri
  4. 1.8 8 km E of Ridgely, Tennessee
  5. 1.6 4 km NW of Marston, Missouri
  6. 1.7 2 km NNE of Ridgely, Tennessee
  7. 1.7 7 km NNW of Ridgely, Tennessee
  8. 1.8 1 km NNE of Marston, Missouri
  9. 1.7 4 km WSW of Howardville, Missouri
  10. 1.9 5 km NW of Ridgely, Tennessee
  11. 1.6 7 km E of Hayward, Missouri
  12. 1.7 2 km NNE of Howardville, Missouri
  13. 1.6 7 km SE of Marston, Missouri
  14. 2.0 7 km S of Ridgely, Tennessee
  15. 1.8 6 km NW of Ridgely, Tennessee

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 3,800 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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