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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.6mb_lg

18 km ENE of Leamington, Canada

· 5.0 km deep · released about 240 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Wayne County 72 kmMacomb County 72 kmLorain County 80 kmOttawa County 82 kmErie County 84 kmSt. Clair County 91 kmMonroe County 92 kmCuyahoga County 93 kmOakland County 99 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 2.6 (mb_lg)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Wayne County, 72 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3340 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 240 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 63,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 45,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 240 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 42.1360, -82.4100. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Wayne County, MI 72 km (45 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Wayne County
Macomb County, MI 72 km (45 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Macomb County
Lorain County, OH 80 km (50 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Lorain County
Ottawa County, OH 82 km (51 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Ottawa County
Erie County, OH 84 km (52 mi) N of here earthquakes near Erie County
St. Clair County, MI 91 km (56 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near St. Clair County

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

Aftershocks so far

1 earthquake has been recorded within 50 km since this one.

  1. 2.4 4 km WSW of Ridgetown, Canada

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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