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M 2.3md

8 km W of Tunnel Hill, Georgia

· 5.0 km deep · released about 85 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Catoosa County 8 kmWhitfield County 16 kmWalker County 18 kmDade County 34 kmMurray County 37 kmHamilton County 38 kmGordon County 43 kmChattooga County 44 kmBradley County 44 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (md)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Catoosa County, 8 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1147 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 85 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 130,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 11× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 85 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 34.8298, -85.1400. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Catoosa County, GA 8 km (5 mi) S of here earthquakes near Catoosa County
Whitfield County, GA 16 km (10 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Whitfield County
Walker County, GA 18 km (11 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Walker County
Dade County, GA 34 km (21 mi) E of here earthquakes near Dade County
Murray County, GA 37 km (23 mi) W of here earthquakes near Murray County
Hamilton County, TN 38 km (23 mi) S of here earthquakes near Hamilton County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 1 km NW of Trion, Georgia
  2. 2.4 10 km WNW of Resaca, Georgia
  3. 2.1 11 km ESE of Trenton, Georgia
  4. 2.1 3 km SW of Varnell, Georgia
  5. 2.4 4 km SW of LaFayette, Georgia
  6. 1.7 6 km W of Linwood, Georgia
  7. 2.3 6 km WSW of Linwood, Georgia
  8. 2.0 4 km NNE of Trenton, Georgia
  9. 1.9 9 km NNW of Eton, Georgia
  10. 2.3 3 km S of Lone Oak, Tennessee
  11. 2.1 3 km ENE of Cohutta, Georgia
  12. 2.4 4 km NW of Cohutta, Georgia
  13. 2.2 6 km WNW of Linwood, Georgia
  14. 2.1 5 km E of Trion, Georgia
  15. 2.2 8 km N of Menlo, Georgia

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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