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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.6md

13 km NW of Trion, Georgia

· 9.7 km deep · released about 230 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
9.7 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Walker County, 17 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2817 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 230 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 65,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 46,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4.1× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 230 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 34.6240, -85.4253. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Walker County, GA 17 km (10 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Walker County
Chattooga County, GA 18 km (11 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Chattooga County
Dade County, GA 26 km (16 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Dade County
DeKalb County, AL 39 km (24 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near DeKalb County
Catoosa County, GA 40 km (25 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Catoosa County
Floyd County, GA 45 km (28 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Floyd County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.6 8 km N of Menlo, Georgia
  2. 2.3 6 km WSW of Linwood, Georgia
  3. 1.9 5 km E of LaFayette, Georgia
  4. 1.8 2 km SW of Chickamauga, Georgia
  5. 2.2 2 km S of Ringgold, Georgia
  6. 2.5 4 km N of Tunnel Hill, Georgia
  7. 2.1 10 km SE of Chickamauga, Georgia
  8. 2.2 4 km WSW of Tunnel Hill, Georgia
  9. 2.0 10 km WNW of Resaca, Georgia
  10. 2.3 10 km WNW of Resaca, Georgia
  11. 2.1 11 km SW of Dalton, Georgia
  12. 2.2 8 km SSW of Dalton, Georgia
  13. 2.1 6 km SW of Bridgeport, Alabama
  14. 2.3 4 km NE of Stevenson, Alabama
  15. 2.5 7 km ENE of Stevenson, Alabama

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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