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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.8md

6 km SW of Tellico Plains, Tennessee

· 16 km deep · released about 14 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.8 (md)
Depth
16 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Monroe County, 16 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2441 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 14 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,100,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 790,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 70× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 14 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 35.3227, -84.3472. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Monroe County, TN 16 km (10 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Monroe County
McMinn County, TN 27 km (17 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near McMinn County
Polk County, TN 30 km (18 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Polk County
Cherokee County, NC 33 km (21 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Cherokee County
Loudon County, TN 46 km (29 mi) S of here earthquakes near Loudon County
Graham County, NC 47 km (29 mi) W of here earthquakes near Graham County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 14 km SE of Vonore, Tennessee
  2. 2.8 6 km SE of Englewood, Tennessee
  3. 1.5 5 km ENE of Niota, Tennessee
  4. 2.0 3 km SSW of Tellico Village, Tennessee
  5. 2.1 6 km NNW of Calhoun, Tennessee
  6. 2.0 6 km S of Friendsville, Tennessee
  7. 1.7 5 km S of Tellico Plains, Tennessee
  8. 1.9 13 km NE of Ducktown, Tennessee
  9. 1.6 5 km E of Sweetwater, Tennessee
  10. 1.8 4 km E of Niota, Tennessee
  11. 2.1 10 km SE of Wildwood Lake, Tennessee
  12. 1.9 Tennessee
  13. 1.6 1 km W of Madisonville, Tennessee
  14. 1.7 5 km ENE of Sweetwater, Tennessee
  15. 1.5 15 km ENE of Tellico Plains, 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.4 on 2018-12-12 — it released about 8,800 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

On USGS

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