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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.2ml

12 km N of Pultneyville, New York

· 7.8 km deep · released about 60 lb of TNT

10 km30 km60 km120 km N Wayne County 21 kmMonroe County 46 kmOntario County 60 kmCayuga County 63 kmSeneca County 73 kmOswego County 77 kmYates County 84 kmOrleans County 85 kmOnondaga County 89 km
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 2.2 (ml)
Depth
7.8 km below the surface
Felt
25 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Wayne County, 21 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 254 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 25 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 43.3885, -77.1583. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Wayne County, NY 21 km (13 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Wayne County
Monroe County, NY 46 km (29 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Monroe County
Ontario County, NY 60 km (37 mi) N of here earthquakes near Ontario County
Cayuga County, NY 63 km (39 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Cayuga County
Seneca County, NY 73 km (45 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Seneca County
Oswego County, NY 77 km (48 mi) W of here earthquakes near Oswego County

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

Aftershocks so far

1 earthquake has been recorded within 50 km since this one.

  1. 1.8 23 km NW of Fair Haven, New York

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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