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M 1.7ml

2 km N of Saint-Barnabé-Sud, Canada

· 16 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
16 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Franklin County, 100 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1937 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 11 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 89× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 45.7553, -72.9168. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Franklin County, VT 100 km (62 mi) N of here earthquakes near Franklin County
Grand Isle County, VT 110 km (68 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Grand Isle County
Orleans County, VT 115 km (72 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Orleans County
Clinton County, NY 127 km (79 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Clinton County
Essex County, VT 147 km (92 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Essex County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 4 km S of Saint-Thomas, Canada
  2. 2.0 13 km S of Pierreville, Canada
  3. 2.2 10 km SSE of Louiseville, Canada
  4. 3.8 5 km SE of Pierreville, Canada
  5. 2.1 5 km SE of Granby, Canada
  6. 2.1 1 km NW of L'Assomption, 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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