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M 1.7ml

New York

· 15 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N St. Lawrence County 44 kmFranklin County 75 kmClinton County 116 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
15 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
St. Lawrence County, 44 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1436 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 2 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 44.8809, -75.1663. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
St. Lawrence County, NY 44 km (28 mi) N of here earthquakes near St. Lawrence County
Franklin County, NY 75 km (46 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Franklin County
Clinton County, NY 116 km (72 mi) W of here earthquakes near Clinton County
Jefferson County, NY 121 km (75 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Jefferson County
Essex County, NY 140 km (87 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

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

  1. 1.6 1 km S of Massena, New York
  2. 2.2 5 km SE of Osgoode, Canada
  3. 2.2 8 km W of Saint Regis Falls, New York
  4. 1.6 8 km NNE of Rensselaer Falls, New York
  5. 2.8 8 km NNW of Canton, New York
  6. 1.8 1 km W of Ogdensburg, New York
  7. 2.1 7 km SW of Cornwall, Canada
  8. 2.2 9 km WNW of Massena, 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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