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M 2.0md

8 km SW of Cawood, Kentucky

· 30 km deep · released about 33 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Harlan County 15 kmLee County 15 kmHancock County 25 kmBell County 34 kmLeslie County 40 kmClaiborne County 42 kmHawkins County 45 kmKnox County 53 kmGrainger 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 2.0 (md)
Depth
30 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity I
Nearest
Harlan County, 15 km NNE
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. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 33 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 5.8 450,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 320,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 29× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 33 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 36.7360, -83.2960. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Harlan County, KY 15 km (9 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Harlan County
Lee County, VA 15 km (9 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Lee County
Hancock County, TN 25 km (15 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Hancock County
Bell County, KY 34 km (21 mi) E of here earthquakes near Bell County
Leslie County, KY 40 km (25 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Leslie County
Claiborne County, TN 42 km (26 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Claiborne County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 5 km ESE of Pineville, Kentucky
  2. 2.5 9 km NE of Flat Lick, Kentucky
  3. 2.4 5 km NNE of Bean Station, Tennessee
  4. 2.4 5 km ENE of Harrogate, Tennessee
  5. 2.1 9 km ENE of Rutledge, Tennessee
  6. 2.1 7 km ENE of Rutledge, Tennessee
  7. 2.7 18 km SSE of Hyden, Kentucky
  8. 1.8 4 km S of New Tazewell, Tennessee
  9. 2.2 9 km SSW of Cumberland, Kentucky
  10. 2.4 Kentucky-Tennessee border region
  11. 2.5 5 km SW of Benham, Kentucky

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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