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M 2.4ml

5 km W of Luna Pier, Michigan

· 5.0 km deep · released about 120 lb of TNT

10 km30 km60 km120 km N Monroe County 11 kmLucas County 15 kmLenawee County 47 kmOttawa County 51 kmWood County 51 kmWashtenaw County 56 kmWayne County 56 kmFulton County 56 kmSandusky County 60 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 2.4 (ml)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
39 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Monroe County, 11 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 919 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 39 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 120 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 130,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 89,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 7.9× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 120 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 41.8158, -83.5123. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Monroe County, MI 11 km (7 mi) S of here earthquakes near Monroe County
Lucas County, OH 15 km (9 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Lucas County
Lenawee County, MI 47 km (29 mi) E of here earthquakes near Lenawee County
Ottawa County, OH 51 km (32 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Ottawa County
Wood County, OH 51 km (32 mi) N of here earthquakes near Wood County
Washtenaw County, MI 56 km (35 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Washtenaw 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. 2.7 8 km N of Maybee, Michigan
  2. 3.0 7 km SSE of Amherstburg, Canada
  3. 2.3 4 km SSE of Walbridge, Ohio
  4. 2.5 4 km WSW of Millbury, Ohio
  5. 2.6 3 km SSE of Walbridge, 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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