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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

1 km W of Madisonville, Tennessee

· 16 km deep · released about 6.8 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (md)
Depth
16 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Monroe County, 14 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1987 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 6.8 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,200,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,600,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 140× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 6.8 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 35.5177, -84.3832. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Monroe County, TN 14 km (9 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Monroe County
McMinn County, TN 24 km (15 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near McMinn County
Loudon County, TN 25 km (16 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Loudon County
Roane County, TN 39 km (24 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Roane County
Meigs County, TN 39 km (24 mi) E of here earthquakes near Meigs County
Blount County, TN 46 km (28 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Blount 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. 1.9 15 km WNW of Sweetwater, Tennessee
  2. 1.5 5 km E of Niota, Tennessee
  3. 1.9 7 km E of Benton, Tennessee
  4. 2.0 11 km NNE of Tellico Plains, Tennessee
  5. 2.4 0 km NE of Alcoa, Tennessee
  6. 2.0 8 km SSE of Vonore, Tennessee
  7. 1.5 7 km ESE of Calhoun, Tennessee
  8. 2.2 1 km SE of Alcoa, Tennessee
  9. 1.9 3 km ESE of Etowah, Tennessee
  10. 1.8 11 km E of Benton, Tennessee
  11. 2.1 1 km SW of Tellico Village, Tennessee
  12. 1.6 9 km NNW of Decatur, Tennessee
  13. 1.9 6 km NW of Lenoir City, Tennessee
  14. 2.4 6 km WNW of Niota, Tennessee
  15. 1.6 2 km ENE of Loudon, 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 18,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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