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M 1.9md

Tennessee

· 9.4 km deep · released about 20 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Monroe County 16 kmLoudon County 18 kmMcMinn County 31 kmRoane County 35 kmBlount County 39 kmMeigs County 44 kmGraham County 52 kmCherokee County 55 kmPolk County 55 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.9 (md)
Depth
9.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Monroe County, 16 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1984 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 35.5740, -84.3343. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Monroe County, TN 16 km (10 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Monroe County
Loudon County, TN 18 km (11 mi) S of here earthquakes near Loudon County
McMinn County, TN 31 km (19 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near McMinn County
Roane County, TN 35 km (22 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Roane County
Blount County, TN 39 km (24 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Blount County
Meigs County, TN 44 km (27 mi) E of here earthquakes near Meigs County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.5 2 km N of Farragut, Tennessee
  2. 1.9 8 km SSE of Vonore, Tennessee
  3. 2.5 7 km WSW of Tellico Plains, Tennessee
  4. 1.5 6 km NNW of Philadelphia, Tennessee
  5. 1.9 6 km E of Vonore, Tennessee
  6. 1.9 15 km WNW of Sweetwater, Tennessee
  7. 1.5 5 km E of Niota, Tennessee
  8. 2.0 11 km NNE of Tellico Plains, Tennessee
  9. 2.4 0 km NE of Alcoa, Tennessee
  10. 2.0 8 km SSE of Vonore, Tennessee
  11. 1.5 7 km ESE of Calhoun, Tennessee
  12. 2.2 1 km SE of Alcoa, Tennessee
  13. 1.9 3 km ESE of Etowah, Tennessee
  14. 1.8 11 km E of Benton, Tennessee
  15. 2.3 1 km NNW of Wildwood, 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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