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M 2.0md

5 km E of East Cleveland, Tennessee

· 14 km deep · released about 36 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Bradley County 6 kmPolk County 24 kmMcMinn County 33 kmHamilton County 37 kmMeigs County 39 kmMurray County 41 kmCatoosa County 43 kmWhitfield County 43 kmRhea County 51 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (md)
Depth
14 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Bradley County, 6 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2365 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 36 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 420,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 300,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 27× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 36 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 35.1617, -84.7977. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Bradley County, TN 6 km (4 mi) E of here earthquakes near Bradley County
Polk County, TN 24 km (15 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Polk County
McMinn County, TN 33 km (21 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near McMinn County
Hamilton County, TN 37 km (23 mi) E of here earthquakes near Hamilton County
Meigs County, TN 39 km (24 mi) S of here earthquakes near Meigs County
Murray County, GA 41 km (25 mi) N of here earthquakes near Murray County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 1 km ENE of Dayton, Tennessee
  2. 2.2 2 km NW of Eton, Georgia
  3. 2.5 7 km WSW of Tellico Plains, Tennessee
  4. 2.2 4 km SSE of Lakesite, Tennessee
  5. 1.5 5 km E of Niota, Tennessee
  6. 1.9 7 km E of Benton, Tennessee
  7. 1.5 7 km ESE of Calhoun, Tennessee
  8. 1.9 3 km ESE of Etowah, Tennessee
  9. 1.8 11 km E of Benton, Tennessee
  10. 2.3 4 km ESE of East Cleveland, Tennessee
  11. 1.6 9 km NNW of Decatur, Tennessee
  12. 2.4 6 km WNW of Niota, Tennessee
  13. 1.7 2 km ESE of Dalton, Georgia
  14. 1.9 8 km SSE of Etowah, Tennessee
  15. 1.8 4 km W of Athens, 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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