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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.3md

8 km E of Pikeville, Tennessee

· 4.4 km deep · released about 72 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (md)
Depth
4.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Bledsoe County, 10 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2437 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 72 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 210,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 150,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 13× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 72 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 35.5942, -85.1002. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Bledsoe County, TN 10 km (6 mi) E of here earthquakes near Bledsoe County
Rhea County, TN 14 km (8 mi) W of here earthquakes near Rhea County
Meigs County, TN 27 km (17 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Meigs County
Van Buren County, TN 34 km (21 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Van Buren County
Sequatchie County, TN 37 km (23 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Sequatchie County
Cumberland County, TN 41 km (25 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Cumberland County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 6 km WSW of Riceville, Tennessee
  2. 1.9 5 km SSW of Riceville, Tennessee
  3. 2.2 2 km W of Dayton, Tennessee
  4. 2.1 4 km NNW of Dayton, Tennessee
  5. 2.2 13 km S of Midtown, Tennessee
  6. 1.8 6 km SW of Decatur, Tennessee
  7. 2.2 10 km SSE of Dayton, Tennessee
  8. 2.1 6 km NNE of Hopewell, Tennessee
  9. 1.6 9 km SW of Spring City, Tennessee
  10. 2.3 1 km NW of Niota, Tennessee
  11. 2.2 9 km NNW of Graysville, Tennessee
  12. 2.2 10 km W of Graysville, Tennessee
  13. 1.8 4 km WSW of Decatur, Tennessee
  14. 2.6 14 km W of Graysville, Tennessee
  15. 2.3 13 km W of Graysville, 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 1,700 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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