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M 2.0md

3 km E of Rutledge, Tennessee

· 13 km deep · released about 26 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (md)
Depth
13 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Grainger County, 3 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1361 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 26 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 580,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 410,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 36× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 26 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 36.2748, -83.4722. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Grainger County, TN 3 km (2 mi) E of here earthquakes near Grainger County
Hamblen County, TN 20 km (12 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Hamblen County
Jefferson County, TN 25 km (16 mi) N of here earthquakes near Jefferson County
Claiborne County, TN 30 km (19 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Claiborne County
Union County, TN 33 km (20 mi) E of here earthquakes near Union County
Hancock County, TN 35 km (22 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Hancock County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 1 km W of Rutledge, Tennessee
  2. 2.0 4 km WNW of Mascot, Tennessee
  3. 1.9 3 km NW of Mascot, Tennessee
  4. 2.1 2 km S of Blaine, Tennessee
  5. 1.9 5 km NNW of Mascot, Tennessee
  6. 1.9 9 km WSW of Mascot, Tennessee
  7. 2.6 11 km SW of Middlesboro, Kentucky
  8. 2.2 10 km ENE of Knoxville, Tennessee
  9. 2.3 11 km ESE of Mascot, Tennessee
  10. 2.0 8 km ENE of Knoxville, Tennessee
  11. 2.3 16 km N of Maynardville, Tennessee
  12. 2.1 8 km ENE of Seymour, Tennessee
  13. 2.4 5 km NNE of Bean Station, Tennessee
  14. 2.4 5 km ENE of Harrogate, Tennessee
  15. 2.3 2 km ENE of Rutledge, 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.

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