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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.4mb_lg

5 km E of Arcadia, Ohio

· 9.9 km deep · released about 120 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Hancock County 22 kmSeneca County 27 kmWood County 31 kmWyandot County 32 kmSandusky County 38 kmHardin County 53 kmCrawford County 53 kmHenry County 57 kmPutnam County 58 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.4 (mb_lg)
Depth
9.9 km below the surface
Felt
55 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Hancock County, 22 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1306 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 55 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 41.1090, -83.4530. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Hancock County, OH 22 km (13 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Hancock County
Seneca County, OH 27 km (17 mi) W of here earthquakes near Seneca County
Wood County, OH 31 km (19 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Wood County
Wyandot County, OH 32 km (20 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Wyandot County
Sandusky County, OH 38 km (23 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Sandusky County
Hardin County, OH 53 km (33 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Hardin County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 4 km SSE of Walbridge, Ohio
  2. 2.5 4 km WSW of Millbury, Ohio
  3. 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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