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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.5md

6 km ESE of Cheshire, Ohio

· 16 km deep · released about 170 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mason County 16 kmMeigs County 19 kmGallia County 25 kmJackson County 33 kmAthens County 46 kmPutnam County 47 kmJackson County 51 kmVinton County 53 kmLawrence County 54 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
16 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mason County, 16 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1000 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 170 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 89,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 63,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 5.6× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.5 about 170 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 38.9170, -82.0430. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mason County, WV 16 km (10 mi) N of here earthquakes near Mason County
Meigs County, OH 19 km (12 mi) S of here earthquakes near Meigs County
Gallia County, OH 25 km (16 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Gallia County
Jackson County, WV 33 km (20 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Jackson County
Athens County, OH 46 km (29 mi) S of here earthquakes near Athens County
Putnam County, WV 47 km (29 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Putnam 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. 3.1 2 km NNW of Oak Hill, Ohio
  2. 2.5 13 km SSW of Rio Grande, Ohio

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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