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M 2.3md

4 km WSW of McLeansville, North Carolina

· 0.1 km deep · released about 72 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (md)
Depth
0.1 km below the surface
Felt
87 reports · strongest reported intensity V
Nearest
Guilford County, 8 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 990 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 87 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 72 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 5.8 210,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 150,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 13× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 72 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 36.0977, -79.7058. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Guilford County, NC 8 km (5 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Guilford County
Alamance County, NC 28 km (17 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Alamance County
Rockingham County, NC 32 km (20 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Rockingham County
Randolph County, NC 44 km (27 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Randolph County
Caswell County, NC 47 km (29 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Caswell County
Forsyth County, NC 50 km (31 mi) E of here earthquakes near Forsyth County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 7 km WNW of Randleman, North Carolina
  2. 1.7 8 km NW of Randleman, North Carolina
  3. 1.6 7 km NW of Randleman, North Carolina
  4. 2.4 7 km NW of Randleman, North Carolina
  5. 1.9 7 km NW of Randleman, North Carolina
  6. 1.9 7 km NW of Randleman, North Carolina
  7. 2.3 8 km WNW of Randleman, North Carolina
  8. 2.3 8 km NW of Randleman, North Carolina
  9. 2.2 3 km WSW of McLeansville, North 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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