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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.3mb_lg

2 km SSE of Madison, Ohio

· 5.0 km deep · released about 85 lb of TNT

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Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (mb_lg)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
54 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Lake County, 13 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 47 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 54 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 85 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 130,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 11× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 85 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 41.7486, -81.0408. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lake County, OH 13 km (8 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Lake County
Geauga County, OH 30 km (19 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Geauga County
Ashtabula County, OH 30 km (19 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Ashtabula County
Cuyahoga County, OH 52 km (32 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Cuyahoga County
Trumbull County, OH 54 km (34 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Trumbull County
Portage County, OH 66 km (41 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Portage County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 1 km W of North Perry, Ohio
  2. 2.0 3 km SE of Madison, Ohio
  3. 2.2 5 km W of Rock Creek, Ohio
  4. 2.1 2 km SE of Madison, Ohio
  5. 2.2 6 km SE of Madison, Ohio
  6. 2.3 4 km SE of Madison, Ohio
  7. 2.9 3 km SW of Madison, Ohio
  8. 2.2 3 km SSE of Madison, Ohio
  9. 2.7 4 km ENE of North Madison, 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.0 on 2019-06-10 — it released about 350 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

On USGS

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