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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.6md

9 km ENE of Garland, Tennessee

· 20 km deep · released about 220 lb of TNT

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Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 2.6 (md)
Depth
20 km below the surface
Felt
5 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Knox County, 12 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1517 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 5 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 220 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 68,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 48,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4.3× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 220 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 35.9042, -84.0202. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Knox County, TN 12 km (8 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Knox County
Blount County, TN 26 km (16 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Blount County
Anderson County, TN 28 km (18 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Anderson County
Loudon County, TN 32 km (20 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Loudon County
Union County, TN 45 km (28 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Union County
Roane County, TN 46 km (28 mi) E of here earthquakes near Roane County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 14 km SE of Vonore, Tennessee
  2. 1.6 5 km NNE of Greenback, Tennessee
  3. 2.0 13 km SE of Greenback, Tennessee
  4. 1.6 7 km SSE of Vonore, Tennessee
  5. 1.7 8 km E of Greenback, Tennessee
  6. 1.9 1 km WSW of Plainview, Tennessee
  7. 2.2 9 km W of Clinton, Tennessee
  8. 1.6 1 km SSW of Eagleton Village, Tennessee
  9. 2.0 Tennessee-North Carolina border region
  10. 2.4 Kentucky-Tennessee border region
  11. 2.4 10 km SW of Gatlinburg, Tennessee
  12. 2.1 6 km WSW of Tellico Village, Tennessee
  13. 2.4 Tennessee-North Carolina border region
  14. 2.5 4 km NNE of Greenback, Tennessee
  15. 2.1 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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