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M 2.5md

3 km WNW of Wyndham, Virginia

· 7.6 km deep · released about 180 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Hanover County 15 kmGoochland County 24 kmRichmond city 25 kmPowhatan County 29 kmChesterfield County 37 kmLouisa County 40 kmHenrico County 43 kmCaroline County 44 kmKing William County 49 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.5 (md)
Depth
7.6 km below the surface
Felt
194 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Hanover County, 15 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2428 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 194 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 180 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 86,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 61,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 5.4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.5 about 180 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 37.7095, -77.6507. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Hanover County, VA 15 km (9 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Hanover County
Goochland County, VA 24 km (15 mi) E of here earthquakes near Goochland County
Richmond city, VA 25 km (16 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Richmond city
Powhatan County, VA 29 km (18 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Powhatan County
Chesterfield County, VA 37 km (23 mi) N of here earthquakes near Chesterfield County
Louisa County, VA 40 km (25 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Louisa County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 11 km S of Woodlake, Virginia
  2. 1.6 3 km SW of Wyndham, Virginia
  3. 2.3 1 km NE of Wyndham, Virginia
  4. 2.8 1 km NNE of Wyndham, Virginia
  5. 1.8 9 km S of Louisa, Virginia
  6. 2.3 18 km ENE of Cumberland, Virginia
  7. 2.3 4 km N of Glen Allen, Virginia
  8. 2.2 Virginia
  9. 1.6 16 km S of Louisa, Virginia
  10. 2.3 15 km S of Louisa, Virginia
  11. 2.3 16 km S of Louisa, Virginia
  12. 2.3 2 km WSW of Columbia, Virginia
  13. 1.8 9 km S of Louisa, Virginia
  14. 2.4 13 km NW of Ashland, Virginia
  15. 2.2 8 km ENE of Cumberland, Virginia

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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