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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.6ml

20 km NE of Parks, Arizona

· 9.6 km deep · released about 240 lb of TNT

10 km30 km60 km120 km N Coconino County 49 kmYavapai County 111 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 2.6 (ml)
Depth
9.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Coconino County, 49 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 639 days ago

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 240 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 63,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 45,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 240 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 35.3857, -111.7835. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Coconino County, AZ 49 km (31 mi) S of here earthquakes near Coconino County
Yavapai County, AZ 111 km (69 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Yavapai County

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

Aftershocks so far

No further earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.

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.

On USGS

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