New Brunswick, Canada

2023-08-15 04:18 UTC · 5.0 km deep · released about 120 lb of TNT

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When: 2023-08-15 04:18 UTC
Magnitude: M 2.4 (mb_lg)
Depth: 5.0 km below the surface
Felt: no reports yet
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS 1071 days ago · we first saw it 1071 days ago

A magnitude 2.4 earthquake was recorded at New Brunswick, Canada at 04:18 UTC on 2023-08-15. This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

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.

Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 130,000× the energy of this one
Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 89,000× the energy of this one
Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 7.9× the energy of this one
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

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Epicentre 46.9524, -66.5972. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

2.3 82 km W of Miramichi, Canada 21:31 UTC
2.5 61 km SW of Bathurst, Canada 23:07 UTC
1.9 69 km ENE of Florenceville-Bristol, Canada 21:10 UTC
2.1 76 km W of Miramichi, Canada 06:11 UTC
2.3 84 km W of Miramichi, Canada 00:34 UTC
1.8 60 km ENE of Florenceville-Bristol, Canada 00:44 UTC
2.4 83 km W of Miramichi, Canada 12:48 UTC
2.3 81 km W of Miramichi, Canada 16:38 UTC
2.0 80 km W of Miramichi, Canada 07:24 UTC
2.2 83 km E of Hamlin, Maine 07:15 UTC
2.0 82 km W of Miramichi, Canada 07:13 UTC
2.0 77 km W of Miramichi, Canada 00:20 UTC
2.3 80 km W of Miramichi, Canada 20:16 UTC
2.1 84 km W of Miramichi, Canada 07:35 UTC
2.2 84 km W of Miramichi, Canada 07:10 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 07:26 UTC. QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

On USGS

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