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M 3.9mw

7 km E of Stillmore, Georgia

· 0.8 km deep · released about 11 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Candler County 8 kmEmanuel County 21 kmBulloch County 38 kmTreutlen County 41 kmEvans County 41 kmJenkins County 41 kmToombs County 41 kmTattnall County 46 kmMontgomery County 48 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 3.9 (mw)
Depth
0.8 km below the surface
Felt
2355 reports · strongest reported intensity V
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
green
Tsunami
USGS flagged this event for tsunami evaluation. Follow tsunami.gov for official messages.
Nearest
Candler County, 8 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 339 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 2355 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 11 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 16,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 710× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 500× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.9 about 11 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 22× 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 32.4525, -82.1405. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Candler County, GA 8 km (5 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Candler County
Emanuel County, GA 21 km (13 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Emanuel County
Bulloch County, GA 38 km (24 mi) W of here earthquakes near Bulloch County
Treutlen County, GA 41 km (25 mi) E of here earthquakes near Treutlen County
Evans County, GA 41 km (25 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Evans County
Jenkins County, GA 41 km (26 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Jenkins County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 9 km ENE of Stillmore, Georgia
  2. 2.4 6 km N of Hagan, 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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