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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.4md

3 km SSW of Park City, Tennessee

· 2.8 km deep · released about 120 lb of TNT

10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lincoln County 10 kmMadison County 32 kmMoore County 34 kmGiles County 44 kmLimestone County 45 kmFranklin County 46 kmMarshall County 49 kmBedford County 53 kmJackson County 64 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 2.4 (md)
Depth
2.8 km below the surface
Felt
5 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Lincoln County, 10 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 390 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 120 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 130,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 89,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 7.9× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 120 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 35.0520, -86.5912. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lincoln County, TN 10 km (6 mi) S of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Madison County, AL 32 km (20 mi) N of here earthquakes near Madison County
Moore County, TN 34 km (21 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Moore County
Giles County, TN 44 km (27 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Giles County
Limestone County, AL 45 km (28 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Limestone County
Franklin County, TN 46 km (29 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Franklin County

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

Aftershocks so far

No further earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.

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.

On USGS

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