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M 1.7md

5 km E of Greenback, Tennessee

· 3.1 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Blount County 18 kmLoudon County 20 kmMonroe County 27 kmKnox County 40 kmRoane County 42 kmGraham County 43 kmAnderson County 51 kmMcMinn County 53 kmSevier County 55 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (md)
Depth
3.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Blount County, 18 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2420 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 11 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 89× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 35.6615, -84.1153. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Blount County, TN 18 km (11 mi) W of here earthquakes near Blount County
Loudon County, TN 20 km (12 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Loudon County
Monroe County, TN 27 km (17 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Monroe County
Knox County, TN 40 km (25 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Knox County
Roane County, TN 42 km (26 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Roane County
Graham County, NC 43 km (27 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Graham County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 2 km WSW of Alcoa, Tennessee
  2. 2.3 3 km SW of Alcoa, Tennessee
  3. 2.1 6 km E of Kingston, Tennessee
  4. 1.7 5 km S of Tellico Plains, Tennessee
  5. 2.2 5 km W of Seymour, Tennessee
  6. 1.6 5 km E of Sweetwater, Tennessee
  7. 1.8 4 km E of Niota, Tennessee
  8. 2.6 7 km WSW of Knoxville, Tennessee
  9. 1.5 11 km E of Kingston, Tennessee
  10. 1.8 11 km E of Kingston, Tennessee
  11. 1.9 Tennessee
  12. 2.0 2 km ESE of Friendsville, Tennessee
  13. 1.6 1 km W of Madisonville, Tennessee
  14. 1.7 5 km ENE of Sweetwater, Tennessee
  15. 2.2 3 km W of Maryville, 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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