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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.2mb_lg

5 km NNE of Whitehouse Station, New Jersey

· 5.0 km deep · released about 60 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Somerset County 16 kmHunterdon County 17 kmMorris County 28 kmWarren County 30 kmUnion County 38 kmMiddlesex County 39 kmMercer County 43 kmEssex County 45 kmBucks County 47 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.2 (mb_lg)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
161 reports · strongest reported intensity V
Nearest
Somerset County, 16 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 862 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 161 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 60 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 250,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 16× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.2 about 60 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 40.6663, -74.7553. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Somerset County, NJ 16 km (10 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Somerset County
Hunterdon County, NJ 17 km (11 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Hunterdon County
Morris County, NJ 28 km (17 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Morris County
Warren County, NJ 30 km (19 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Warren County
Union County, NJ 38 km (23 mi) W of here earthquakes near Union County
Middlesex County, NJ 39 km (24 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Middlesex County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 1 km SW of Gladstone, New Jersey
  2. 2.6 1 km NW of Gladstone, New Jersey
  3. 1.8 6 km ESE of Califon, New Jersey
  4. 1.5 6 km SSE of Long Valley, New Jersey
  5. 1.6 6 km ESE of Califon, New Jersey
  6. 2.9 7 km WSW of Gladstone, New Jersey
  7. 1.6 7 km E of Califon, New Jersey
  8. 1.5 5 km SW of Gladstone, New Jersey
  9. 2.1 6 km W of Gladstone, New Jersey
  10. 1.5 5 km E of Califon, New Jersey
  11. 1.5 5 km NNE of Whitehouse Station, New Jersey
  12. 1.5 5 km N of Whitehouse Station, New Jersey
  13. 1.5 3 km NNE of Whitehouse Station, New Jersey
  14. 1.8 4 km SW of Gladstone, New Jersey
  15. 1.9 5 km SW of Gladstone, New Jersey

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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