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M 1.7md

8 km SSE of Friendsville, Tennessee

· 21 km deep · released about 10 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Blount County 15 kmLoudon County 21 kmMonroe County 31 kmKnox County 36 kmRoane County 43 kmGraham County 45 kmAnderson County 48 kmSevier County 52 kmMcMinn County 57 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (md)
Depth
21 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Blount County, 15 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2900 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 10 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 1,500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 92× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 10 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 35.6972, -84.0880. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Blount County, TN 15 km (9 mi) W of here earthquakes near Blount County
Loudon County, TN 21 km (13 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Loudon County
Monroe County, TN 31 km (19 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Monroe County
Knox County, TN 36 km (22 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Knox County
Roane County, TN 43 km (27 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Roane County
Graham County, NC 45 km (28 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Graham County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 11 km WNW of Loudon, Tennessee
  2. 2.2 3 km SSW of Garland, Tennessee
  3. 2.4 0 km SSW of Rockford, Tennessee
  4. 2.1 4 km NW of Tellico Plains, Tennessee
  5. 1.7 5 km NW of Tellico Plains, Tennessee
  6. 1.9 6 km SW of Tellico Village, Tennessee
  7. 1.7 5 km WNW of Sevierville, Tennessee
  8. 2.2 5 km W of Sevierville, Tennessee
  9. 2.1 9 km ESE of Vonore, Tennessee
  10. 2.0 11 km ESE of Vonore, Tennessee
  11. 1.7 4 km WNW of Madisonville, Tennessee
  12. 2.6 2 km SSE of Mascot, Tennessee
  13. 1.7 11 km ESE of Madisonville, Tennessee
  14. 2.4 2 km WSW of Sweetwater, Tennessee
  15. 2.1 2 km W of Alcoa, 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.

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