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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.9md

1 km NE of Rutledge, Tennessee

· 7.3 km deep · released about 25 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Grainger County 2 kmHamblen County 23 kmClaiborne County 27 kmJefferson County 28 kmUnion County 30 kmHancock County 36 kmBell County 51 kmKnox County 51 kmCocke County 54 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.9 (md)
Depth
7.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Grainger County, 2 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 943 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 25 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 620,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 440,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 39× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 25 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 36.2915, -83.5050. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Grainger County, TN 2 km (1 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Grainger County
Hamblen County, TN 23 km (14 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Hamblen County
Claiborne County, TN 27 km (17 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Claiborne County
Jefferson County, TN 28 km (17 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Jefferson County
Union County, TN 30 km (18 mi) E of here earthquakes near Union County
Hancock County, TN 36 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

24 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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