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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.2mb_lg

9 km SE of Merritt Park, New York

· 8.7 km deep · released about 60 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.2 (mb_lg)
Depth
8.7 km below the surface
Felt
154 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Putnam County, 7 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2087 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 154 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 60 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 250,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 16× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.2 about 60 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 41.4771, -73.8010. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Putnam County, NY 7 km (5 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Putnam County
Dutchess County, NY 31 km (19 mi) S of here earthquakes near Dutchess County
Westchester County, NY 36 km (23 mi) N of here earthquakes near Westchester County
Western Connecticut Planning Region, CT 37 km (23 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Western Connecticut Planning Region
Rockland County, NY 40 km (25 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Rockland County
Orange County, NY 43 km (27 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Orange County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 1 km E of Elmsford, New York
  2. 1.5 3 km NNW of Chappaqua, New York
  3. 1.6 4 km SW of North Stamford, Connecticut
  4. 2.1 1 km SSE of Crown Heights, New York

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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