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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.8ml

7 km NNE of Burlington, Maine

· 5.0 km deep · released about 15 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Penobscot County 28 kmWashington County 69 kmHancock County 78 kmPiscataquis County 92 kmWaldo County 106 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.8 (ml)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Penobscot County, 28 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 192 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 15 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 710,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 63× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 15 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 45.2662, -68.3746. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Penobscot County, ME 28 km (17 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Penobscot County
Washington County, ME 69 km (43 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Washington County
Hancock County, ME 78 km (48 mi) N of here earthquakes near Hancock County
Piscataquis County, ME 92 km (57 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Piscataquis County
Waldo County, ME 106 km (66 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Waldo County
Kennebec County, ME 145 km (90 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Kennebec 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. 1.6 15 km S of Lowell, Maine

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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