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M 1.7ml

5 km S of Rochester, New Hampshire

· 5.0 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Strafford County 7 kmYork County 31 kmRockingham County 31 kmBelknap County 48 kmMerrimack County 58 kmEssex County 68 kmCarroll County 71 kmHillsborough County 72 kmCumberland County 80 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
7 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Strafford County, 7 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1790 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 7 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

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 43.2533, -70.9638. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Strafford County, NH 7 km (5 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Strafford County
York County, ME 31 km (19 mi) SW of here earthquakes near York County
Rockingham County, NH 31 km (20 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Rockingham County
Belknap County, NH 48 km (30 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Belknap County
Merrimack County, NH 58 km (36 mi) E of here earthquakes near Merrimack County
Essex County, MA 68 km (42 mi) N of here earthquakes near Essex County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 2 km NE of Danville, New Hampshire
  2. 1.6 3 km SSE of Greenland, New Hampshire
  3. 2.0 5 km S of Alton, New Hampshire
  4. 2.0 13 km SE of York Harbor, Maine
  5. 2.0 10 km SE of York Harbor, Maine
  6. 3.8 9 km SE of York Harbor, Maine
  7. 1.9 3 km WSW of Dayton, Maine
  8. 2.0 2 km WNW of Loudon, New Hampshire
  9. 2.7 5 km SW of Chichester, New Hampshire
  10. 1.5 6 km SE of Newfield, Maine
  11. 1.9 0 km SW of Bow Bog, New Hampshire
  12. 1.9 5 km SW of New Durham, New Hampshire
  13. 2.3 5 km NE of Wolfeboro, New Hampshire
  14. 2.0 1 km ESE of Springvale, Maine
  15. 2.0 2 km W of Springvale, Maine

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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