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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.2mb_lg

11 km E of Brownlee, Nebraska

· 5.0 km deep · released about 1,900 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Brown County 47 kmThomas County 50 kmCherry County 54 kmBlaine County 58 kmHooker County 67 kmLogan County 85 kmRock County 89 kmMcPherson County 89 kmKeya Paha County 90 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 3.2 (mb_lg)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Brown County, 47 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1517 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,900 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 7,900× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 5,600× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1,900 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2× more

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 42.3032, -100.4923. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Brown County, NE 47 km (29 mi) W of here earthquakes near Brown County
Thomas County, NE 50 km (31 mi) N of here earthquakes near Thomas County
Cherry County, NE 54 km (34 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Cherry County
Blaine County, NE 58 km (36 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Blaine County
Hooker County, NE 67 km (42 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Hooker County
Logan County, NE 85 km (53 mi) N of here earthquakes near Logan 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. 3.0 4 km S of Brownlee, Nebraska

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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