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M 2.4md

5 km SSW of Gurley, Alabama

· 3.3 km deep · released about 120 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Madison County 18 kmMarshall County 40 kmJackson County 40 kmMorgan County 47 kmLimestone County 56 kmLincoln County 57 kmDeKalb County 59 kmFranklin County 62 kmMoore County 70 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.4 (md)
Depth
3.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Madison County, 18 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1497 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 120 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 130,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 89,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 7.9× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 120 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 34.6600, -86.3987. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Madison County, AL 18 km (11 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Madison County
Marshall County, AL 40 km (25 mi) N of here earthquakes near Marshall County
Jackson County, AL 40 km (25 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Jackson County
Morgan County, AL 47 km (29 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Morgan County
Limestone County, AL 56 km (35 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Limestone County
Lincoln County, TN 57 km (35 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Lincoln 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. 2.4 3 km SSW of Park City, Tennessee
  2. 2.3 0 km NNE of Section, 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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