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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.7md

6 km ESE of Englewood, Tennessee

· 18 km deep · released about 290 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 2.7 (md)
Depth
18 km below the surface
Felt
8 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Monroe County, 17 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2881 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 8 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 290 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 51,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 36,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 3.2× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.7 about 290 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 35.3970, -84.4240. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Monroe County, TN 17 km (10 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Monroe County
McMinn County, TN 18 km (11 mi) E of here earthquakes near McMinn County
Polk County, TN 34 km (21 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Polk County
Meigs County, TN 38 km (23 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Meigs County
Loudon County, TN 39 km (24 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Loudon County
Cherokee County, NC 44 km (27 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Cherokee County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 1 km E of South Cleveland, Tennessee
  2. 1.9 10 km ESE of Vonore, Tennessee
  3. 2.0 2 km WNW of Greenback, Tennessee
  4. 1.8 3 km ENE of Madisonville, Tennessee
  5. 2.2 5 km S of Sweetwater, Tennessee
  6. 1.6 7 km ESE of Vonore, Tennessee
  7. 2.0 7 km SSE of Rockwood, Tennessee
  8. 2.4 7 km E of Tellico Plains, Tennessee
  9. 2.6 3 km ENE of Philadelphia, Tennessee
  10. 2.1 12 km NNE of Decatur, Tennessee
  11. 2.1 3 km NNE of Athens, Tennessee
  12. 2.3 10 km SE of Dayton, Tennessee
  13. 2.0 11 km SE of Dayton, Tennessee
  14. 2.2 10 km SE of Dayton, Tennessee
  15. 1.7 2 km NE of Tellico Village, 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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