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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

3 km SSE of Garland, Tennessee

· 7.8 km deep · released about 6.4 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (md)
Depth
7.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Blount County, 22 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2638 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 6.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 150× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 6.4 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 35.8240, -84.0973. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Blount County, TN 22 km (14 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Blount County
Loudon County, TN 22 km (14 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Loudon County
Knox County, TN 24 km (15 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Knox County
Anderson County, TN 34 km (21 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Anderson County
Roane County, TN 39 km (24 mi) E of here earthquakes near Roane County
Monroe County, TN 44 km (27 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Monroe County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 3 km SE of Tellico Village, Tennessee
  2. 2.0 3 km SSW of Garland, Tennessee
  3. 1.6 7 km WSW of Tellico Village, Tennessee
  4. 2.3 5 km NE of Greenback, Tennessee
  5. 2.3 0 km SW of Knoxville, Tennessee
  6. 1.6 3 km ENE of Philadelphia, Tennessee
  7. 2.5 11 km SSW of Maryville, Tennessee
  8. 2.5 7 km SE of Maryville, Tennessee
  9. 2.0 3 km SSW of Loudon, Tennessee
  10. 2.1 6 km S of Sweetwater, Tennessee
  11. 2.0 Kentucky-Tennessee border region
  12. 2.6 7 km ENE of Seymour, Tennessee
  13. 2.4 8 km ENE of Seymour, Tennessee
  14. 1.9 Tennessee
  15. 1.5 4 km WSW of Tellico Village, 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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