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M 2.5md

4 km N of Tunnel Hill, Georgia

· 12 km deep · released about 160 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Catoosa County 10 kmWhitfield County 11 kmMurray County 29 kmWalker County 30 kmBradley County 34 kmHamilton County 35 kmDade County 43 kmGordon County 44 kmPolk County 52 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 2.5 (md)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
4 reports · strongest reported intensity V
Nearest
Catoosa County, 10 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 681 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 4 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 160 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 92,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 65,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 5.8× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.5 about 160 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 34.8838, -85.0362. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Catoosa County, GA 10 km (6 mi) E of here earthquakes near Catoosa County
Whitfield County, GA 11 km (7 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Whitfield County
Murray County, GA 29 km (18 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Murray County
Walker County, GA 30 km (18 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Walker County
Bradley County, TN 34 km (21 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Bradley County
Hamilton County, TN 35 km (21 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Hamilton County

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

Aftershocks so far

24 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 7 km SSE of Charleston, Tennessee
  11. 2.3 3 km S of Lone Oak, Tennessee
  12. 2.1 3 km ENE of Cohutta, Georgia
  13. 2.1 6 km NNE of Hopewell, Tennessee
  14. 2.4 4 km NW of Cohutta, Georgia
  15. 2.2 6 km WNW of Linwood, 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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