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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.9md

6 km NW of Lenoir City, Tennessee

· 17 km deep · released about 21 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Loudon County 12 kmRoane County 20 kmAnderson County 32 kmKnox County 37 kmBlount County 39 kmMonroe County 44 kmMorgan County 45 kmMcMinn County 54 kmMeigs County 59 km
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 1.9 (md)
Depth
17 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Loudon County, 12 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1586 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 21 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 5.8 730,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 520,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 46× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 21 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 35.8412, -84.3060. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Loudon County, TN 12 km (7 mi) N of here earthquakes near Loudon County
Roane County, TN 20 km (12 mi) E of here earthquakes near Roane County
Anderson County, TN 32 km (20 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Anderson County
Knox County, TN 37 km (23 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Knox County
Blount County, TN 39 km (24 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Blount County
Monroe County, TN 44 km (27 mi) N of here earthquakes near Monroe County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 5 km NNE of Niota, Tennessee
  2. 1.7 2 km SSE of Philadelphia, Tennessee
  3. 1.9 3 km N of Madisonville, Tennessee
  4. 2.0 5 km NW of Madisonville, Tennessee
  5. 1.6 6 km E of Oak Ridge, Tennessee
  6. 1.8 3 km W of Maryville, Tennessee
  7. 2.0 14 km SE of Vonore, Tennessee
  8. 1.6 5 km NNE of Greenback, Tennessee
  9. 1.8 8 km E of Englewood, Tennessee
  10. 1.6 9 km NNW of Tellico Plains, Tennessee
  11. 2.0 13 km SE of Greenback, Tennessee
  12. 2.0 0 km S of Niota, Tennessee
  13. 1.6 7 km SSE of Vonore, Tennessee
  14. 1.5 2 km NNW of Madisonville, Tennessee
  15. 1.7 5 km E of Niota, 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 5,800 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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