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M 3.4mwr

1 km WNW of Batesville, Ohio

· 1.7 km deep · released about 1.9 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Noble County 21 kmGuernsey County 23 kmMonroe County 27 kmBelmont County 30 kmHarrison County 45 kmMarshall County 53 kmWashington County 54 kmMuskingum County 56 kmMorgan County 58 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 3.4 (mwr)
Depth
1.7 km below the surface
Felt
120 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Noble County, 21 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2762 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 120 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1.9 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 89,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 4,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,800× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.4 about 1.9 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 4× 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 39.9166, -81.2934. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Noble County, OH 21 km (13 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Noble County
Guernsey County, OH 23 km (15 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Guernsey County
Monroe County, OH 27 km (17 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Monroe County
Belmont County, OH 30 km (19 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Belmont County
Harrison County, OH 45 km (28 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Harrison County
Marshall County, WV 53 km (33 mi) W of here earthquakes near Marshall County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.9 3 km S of Pleasant City, Ohio
  2. 2.3 2 km SW of Pleasant City, Ohio
  3. 2.8 1 km SE of Pleasant City, Ohio
  4. 3.1 3 km S of Pleasant City, Ohio
  5. 3.1 3 km ESE of Buffalo, 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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