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M 2.0md

1 km SSW of Cawood, Kentucky

· 0.6 km deep · released about 36 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Harlan County 10 kmLee County 12 kmHancock County 27 kmLeslie County 38 kmBell County 40 kmHawkins County 45 kmClaiborne County 48 kmLetcher County 51 kmPerry County 53 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (md)
Depth
0.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Harlan County, 10 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1881 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 36.7683, -83.2387. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Harlan County, KY 10 km (6 mi) S of here earthquakes near Harlan County
Lee County, VA 12 km (8 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Lee County
Hancock County, TN 27 km (17 mi) N of here earthquakes near Hancock County
Leslie County, KY 38 km (24 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Leslie County
Bell County, KY 40 km (25 mi) E of here earthquakes near Bell County
Hawkins County, TN 45 km (28 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Hawkins County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 5 km NE of Clinchport, Virginia
  2. 2.1 5 km ESE of Pineville, Kentucky
  3. 2.5 9 km NE of Flat Lick, Kentucky
  4. 2.4 5 km NNE of Bean Station, Tennessee
  5. 2.4 5 km ENE of Harrogate, Tennessee
  6. 2.7 18 km SSE of Hyden, Kentucky
  7. 2.2 9 km SSW of Cumberland, Kentucky
  8. 2.4 Kentucky-Tennessee border region
  9. 2.5 5 km SW of Benham, Kentucky
  10. 2.0 8 km SW of Cawood, Kentucky
  11. 2.3 4 km E of Harrogate, Tennessee
  12. 2.2 12 km SW of Pathfork, Kentucky
  13. 2.2 10 km WSW of Hyden, Kentucky
  14. 2.5 6 km E of Sneedville, Tennessee
  15. 3.1 Tennessee-Virginia border region

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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