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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.3md

10 km S of Jellico, Tennessee

· 22 km deep · released about 85 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Campbell County 10 kmWhitley County 29 kmScott County 34 kmUnion County 36 kmMcCreary County 41 kmAnderson County 42 kmClaiborne County 43 kmBell County 48 kmKnox County 51 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 2.3 (md)
Depth
22 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Campbell County, 10 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 406 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 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 36.4928, -84.1365. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Campbell County, TN 10 km (6 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Campbell County
Whitley County, KY 29 km (18 mi) S of here earthquakes near Whitley County
Scott County, TN 34 km (21 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Scott County
Union County, TN 36 km (22 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Union County
McCreary County, KY 41 km (26 mi) SE of here earthquakes near McCreary County
Anderson County, TN 42 km (26 mi) N of here earthquakes near Anderson County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.5 8 km NNE of Petros, Tennessee
  2. 2.6 11 km SW of Middlesboro, Kentucky

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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