67 km SW of Miramichi, Canada

A magnitude 3.1 earthquake was recorded 67 km SW of Miramichi, Canada at 13:39 UTC on 2024-07-03. 20 people have reported feeling it to USGS. This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,300 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 250,000× the energy of this one
2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 11,000× the energy of this one
3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 7,900× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 3.1 about 1,300 lb of TNT
5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.4× more

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 46.5708, -66.0796. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 2.2 65 km NNE of Noonan, Canada 21:51 UTC
2. 2.8 54 km NNE of Noonan, Canada 03:20 UTC
3. 2.3 54 km NE of Noonan, Canada 03:12 UTC
4. 1.9 38 km WSW of Miramichi, Canada 00:41 UTC
5. 2.4 55 km NE of Noonan, Canada 02:50 UTC
6. 1.9 42 km ENE of Noonan, Canada 16:10 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 08:11 UTC. QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

On USGS

• The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
• Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
• ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

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