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M 1.7md

2 km ESE of Dalton, Georgia

· 12 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (md)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Whitfield County, 5 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1554 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 11 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 89× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 34.7640, -84.9422. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Whitfield County, GA 5 km (3 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Whitfield County
Murray County, GA 19 km (12 mi) W of here earthquakes near Murray County
Catoosa County, GA 24 km (15 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Catoosa County
Gordon County, GA 29 km (18 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Gordon County
Walker County, GA 33 km (21 mi) E of here earthquakes near Walker County
Bradley County, TN 44 km (27 mi) S of here earthquakes near Bradley County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 1 km NW of Trion, Georgia
  2. 2.4 10 km WNW of Resaca, Georgia
  3. 2.1 11 km ESE of Trenton, Georgia
  4. 2.1 3 km SW of Varnell, Georgia
  5. 2.4 4 km SW of LaFayette, Georgia
  6. 1.7 6 km W of Linwood, Georgia
  7. 2.3 6 km WSW of Linwood, Georgia
  8. 1.9 9 km NNW of Eton, Georgia
  9. 2.1 3 km ENE of Cohutta, Georgia
  10. 2.4 4 km NW of Cohutta, Georgia
  11. 2.2 6 km WNW of Linwood, Georgia
  12. 2.1 5 km E of Trion, Georgia
  13. 2.3 6 km WSW of Linwood, Georgia
  14. 1.8 4 km SE of Apison, Tennessee
  15. 2.0 1 km WSW of Collegedale, 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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