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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.9md

3 km ESE of Loudon, Tennessee

· 20 km deep · released about 20 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Loudon County 2 kmRoane County 24 kmMonroe County 31 kmBlount County 34 kmMcMinn County 44 kmKnox County 44 kmAnderson County 45 kmMeigs County 52 kmMorgan County 55 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.9 (md)
Depth
20 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Loudon County, 2 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2289 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 20 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 5.8 760,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 540,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 48× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 20 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 35.7243, -84.3012. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Loudon County, TN 2 km (1 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Loudon County
Roane County, TN 24 km (15 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Roane County
Monroe County, TN 31 km (19 mi) N of here earthquakes near Monroe County
Blount County, TN 34 km (21 mi) W of here earthquakes near Blount County
McMinn County, TN 44 km (27 mi) NE of here earthquakes near McMinn County
Knox County, TN 44 km (28 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Knox County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 5 km E of Riceville, Tennessee
  2. 2.5 Tennessee-North Carolina border region
  3. 2.1 10 km NNE of Decatur, Tennessee
  4. 2.7 19 km NNW of Lake Santeetlah, North Carolina
  5. 1.9 7 km S of Sweetwater, Tennessee
  6. 1.9 6 km E of Friendsville, Tennessee
  7. 1.5 14 km SE of Vonore, Tennessee
  8. 2.4 7 km SE of Knoxville, Tennessee
  9. 2.8 6 km SE of Englewood, Tennessee
  10. 1.5 5 km ENE of Niota, Tennessee
  11. 2.0 3 km SSW of Tellico Village, Tennessee
  12. 2.1 11 km S of Oak Ridge, Tennessee
  13. 1.9 7 km WSW of Maryville, Tennessee
  14. 2.2 5 km SE of Knoxville, Tennessee
  15. 2.0 3 km W of Knoxville, 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 6,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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