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M 2.1md

8 km NE of Parksville, South Carolina

· 5.6 km deep · released about 37 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N McCormick County 17 kmEdgefield County 18 kmLincoln County 28 kmColumbia County 33 kmGreenwood County 36 kmSaluda County 43 kmMcDuffie County 50 kmAbbeville County 52 kmRichmond County 53 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.1 (md)
Depth
5.6 km below the surface
Felt
5 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
McCormick County, 17 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 686 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 5 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 37 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 410,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 290,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 26× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 37 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 33.8355, -82.1472. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
McCormick County, SC 17 km (11 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near McCormick County
Edgefield County, SC 18 km (11 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Edgefield County
Lincoln County, GA 28 km (18 mi) E of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Columbia County, GA 33 km (20 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Columbia County
Greenwood County, SC 36 km (22 mi) S of here earthquakes near Greenwood County
Saluda County, SC 43 km (27 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Saluda County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 2 km WNW of McCormick, South Carolina
  2. 1.9 14 km NW of Grovetown, Georgia
  3. 1.8 1 km NNW of Coronaca, South Carolina
  4. 1.7 2 km NW of Coronaca, South Carolina
  5. 2.0 1 km N of Coronaca, South Carolina
  6. 1.7 5 km SE of Coronaca, South Carolina
  7. 2.7 11 km ENE of Parksville, South Carolina
  8. 1.7 11 km N of Harlem, Georgia
  9. 1.9 12 km N of Harlem, Georgia
  10. 1.8 14 km WNW of Evans, Georgia
  11. 1.9 14 km NW of Grovetown, Georgia
  12. 2.0 14 km NW of Grovetown, Georgia
  13. 2.2 9 km SE of Lincolnton, Georgia
  14. 2.1 4 km WNW of Coronaca, South Carolina
  15. 2.2 2 km N of Coronaca, South Carolina

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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