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M 2.6md

11 km WSW of Union, Alabama

· 0.5 km deep · released about 230 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Greene County 13 kmPickens County 39 kmSumter County 42 kmHale County 44 kmNoxubee County 53 kmKemper County 59 kmTuscaloosa County 61 kmLowndes County 70 kmPerry County 77 km
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 2.6 (md)
Depth
0.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Greene County, 13 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2693 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 230 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 65,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 46,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4.1× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 230 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 32.9457, -88.0328. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Greene County, AL 13 km (8 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Greene County
Pickens County, AL 39 km (25 mi) S of here earthquakes near Pickens County
Sumter County, AL 42 km (26 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Sumter County
Hale County, AL 44 km (27 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Hale County
Noxubee County, MS 53 km (33 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Noxubee County
Kemper County, MS 59 km (37 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Kemper County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 13 km W of Union, Alabama
  2. 2.1 11 km SSW of Tuscaloosa, Alabama
  3. 2.4 12 km WSW of Union, Alabama
  4. 2.1 10 km W of Union, Alabama

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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