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M 3.2mlg

6 km SW of Augusta, Georgia

· 13 km deep · released about 1,900 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Richmond County 9 kmColumbia County 26 kmAiken County 38 kmEdgefield County 39 kmBurke County 41 kmMcDuffie County 43 kmJefferson County 56 kmLincoln County 57 kmBarnwell County 57 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 3.2 (mlg)
Depth
13 km below the surface
Felt
1773 reports · strongest reported intensity V
Nearest
Richmond County, 9 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1867 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 1773 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,900 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 7,900× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 5,600× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1,900 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2× more

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 33.4275, -82.0168. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Richmond County, GA 9 km (6 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Richmond County
Columbia County, GA 26 km (16 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Columbia County
Aiken County, SC 38 km (24 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Aiken County
Edgefield County, SC 39 km (25 mi) S of here earthquakes near Edgefield County
Burke County, GA 41 km (25 mi) N of here earthquakes near Burke County
McDuffie County, GA 43 km (27 mi) E of here earthquakes near McDuffie County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 14 km NW of Grovetown, Georgia
  2. 2.7 11 km ENE of Parksville, South Carolina
  3. 1.7 11 km N of Harlem, Georgia
  4. 1.9 12 km N of Harlem, Georgia
  5. 1.8 14 km WNW of Evans, Georgia
  6. 1.9 14 km NW of Grovetown, Georgia
  7. 2.0 14 km NW of Grovetown, Georgia
  8. 2.2 9 km SE of Lincolnton, Georgia
  9. 2.1 8 km NE of Parksville, South Carolina
  10. 1.9 11 km SE of Jackson, South Carolina
  11. 2.1 15 km NW of Grovetown, Georgia
  12. 2.2 15 km N of Harlem, Georgia
  13. 1.8 16 km NNE of Thomson, Georgia
  14. 2.4 10 km NE of Parksville, South Carolina
  15. 2.1 7 km SSW of Augusta, Georgia

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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