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M 2.0ml

1 km NE of Newburgh Heights, Ohio

· 5.0 km deep · released about 30 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Cuyahoga County 11 kmSummit County 39 kmGeauga County 40 kmMedina County 43 kmLorain County 44 kmPortage County 50 kmLake County 52 kmWayne County 73 kmTrumbull County 76 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (ml)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
3 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Cuyahoga County, 11 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2682 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 3 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 30 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 32× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 30 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 41.4592, -81.6529. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Cuyahoga County, OH 11 km (7 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Cuyahoga County
Summit County, OH 39 km (24 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Summit County
Geauga County, OH 40 km (25 mi) W of here earthquakes near Geauga County
Medina County, OH 43 km (27 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Medina County
Lorain County, OH 44 km (27 mi) E of here earthquakes near Lorain County
Portage County, OH 50 km (31 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Portage County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 5 km NW of Lakeline, Ohio
  2. 2.0 4 km NW of Lakeline, Ohio
  3. 2.4 4 km NW of Lakeline, Ohio
  4. 1.6 7 km NW of Timberlake, Ohio
  5. 2.0 1 km WNW of Willowick, Ohio
  6. 2.5 2 km NW of Lakeline, Ohio
  7. 2.1 2 km NW of Lakeline, Ohio
  8. 1.9 5 km N of Timberlake, Ohio
  9. 2.8 3 km NW of Timberlake, Ohio
  10. 2.0 2 km NNW of Timberlake, Ohio
  11. 2.0 6 km WNW of Mentor-on-the-Lake, Ohio
  12. 1.7 3 km NW of Lakeline, Ohio
  13. 2.6 1 km N of Willowick, Ohio
  14. 1.6 2 km WNW of Lakeline, Ohio
  15. 1.8 3 km NNW of Lakeline, Ohio

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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