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M 1.9md

Ohio-Kentucky border region

· 16 km deep · released about 21 lb of TNT

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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 1.9 (md)
Depth
16 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lewis County, 19 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2461 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 21 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 710,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 500,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 45× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 21 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 38.3852, -83.2642. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lewis County, KY 19 km (12 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Lewis County
Carter County, KY 21 km (13 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Carter County
Rowan County, KY 25 km (15 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Rowan County
Elliott County, KY 33 km (21 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Elliott County
Greenup County, KY 35 km (22 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Greenup County
Fleming County, KY 38 km (24 mi) E of here earthquakes near Fleming County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 15 km E of Flemingsburg, Kentucky
  2. 2.2 2 km SSE of Concord, Kentucky
  3. 2.2 7 km WSW of Vanceburg, Kentucky
  4. 2.4 8 km SSE of Flemingsburg, Kentucky
  5. 2.4 9 km NW of Olive Hill, Kentucky
  6. 2.2 3 km SSW of Bentonville, Ohio
  7. 2.3 5 km WNW of Sandy Hook, Kentucky
  8. 2.2 20 km SSW of Vanceburg, Kentucky
  9. 3.0 2 km E of Manchester, Ohio
  10. 2.1 10 km S of Concord, Kentucky
  11. 1.8 13 km ESE of Flemingsburg, Kentucky
  12. 2.9 2 km SE of South Shore, Kentucky

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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