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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.5md

7 km WSW of New Market, Tennessee

· 20 km deep · released about 190 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Jefferson County 17 kmGrainger County 25 kmKnox County 29 kmUnion County 30 kmSevier County 33 kmHamblen County 36 kmClaiborne County 48 kmCocke County 49 kmBlount County 50 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 2.5 (md)
Depth
20 km below the surface
Felt
17 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Jefferson County, 17 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1982 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 17 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 190 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 80,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 57,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 5.1× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.5 about 190 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 36.0705, -83.6257. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Jefferson County, TN 17 km (10 mi) W of here earthquakes near Jefferson County
Grainger County, TN 25 km (16 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Grainger County
Knox County, TN 29 km (18 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Knox County
Union County, TN 30 km (19 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Union County
Sevier County, TN 33 km (20 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Sevier County
Hamblen County, TN 36 km (23 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Hamblen County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 7 km ENE of Blaine, Tennessee
  2. 1.8 3 km W of Maryville, Tennessee
  3. 1.8 4 km S of New Tazewell, Tennessee
  4. 1.9 1 km NE of Rutledge, Tennessee
  5. 1.9 1 km WSW of Plainview, Tennessee
  6. 1.6 1 km SSW of Eagleton Village, Tennessee
  7. 2.0 Tennessee-North Carolina border region
  8. 2.4 Kentucky-Tennessee border region
  9. 2.4 10 km SW of Gatlinburg, Tennessee
  10. 2.4 Tennessee-North Carolina border region
  11. 2.6 Kentucky-Tennessee border region
  12. 2.7 3 km S of Blaine, Tennessee
  13. 2.8 Kentucky-Tennessee border region
  14. 2.0 3 km E of Rutledge, Tennessee
  15. 2.2 Kentucky-Tennessee border region

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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