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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

10 km ENE of Tellico Plains, Tennessee

· 16 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (md)
Depth
16 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Monroe County, 10 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 367 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 7.6 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.6 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 35.3823, -84.1778. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Monroe County, TN 10 km (6 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Monroe County
Cherokee County, NC 29 km (18 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Cherokee County
Graham County, NC 32 km (20 mi) W of here earthquakes near Graham County
McMinn County, TN 40 km (25 mi) E of here earthquakes near McMinn County
Blount County, TN 41 km (26 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Blount County
Loudon County, TN 41 km (26 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Loudon County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 5 km NNE of Greenback, Tennessee
  2. 2.0 1 km S of Tellico Village, Tennessee
  3. 2.1 1 km S of Tellico Village, Tennessee
  4. 1.7 1 km ENE of Sweetwater, Tennessee
  5. 2.0 3 km SW of Tellico Village, Tennessee
  6. 1.6 8 km E of Englewood, Tennessee
  7. 1.8 8 km E of Englewood, Tennessee
  8. 2.0 8 km SSE of Etowah, Tennessee
  9. 2.3 17 km SSW of Tellico Plains, Tennessee
  10. 2.4 18 km N of Ducktown, Tennessee
  11. 1.7 6 km WNW of Sweetwater, Tennessee
  12. 1.9 4 km W of Etowah, Tennessee
  13. 2.0 2 km SW of Vonore, Tennessee
  14. 2.4 2 km SW of Vonore, Tennessee
  15. 1.5 12 km SE of Greenback, 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.1 on 2025-05-10 — it released about 5,600 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

On USGS

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