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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

6 km ESE of Fort Covington Hamlet, New York

· 4.0 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Franklin County 40 kmClinton County 61 kmSt. Lawrence County 72 kmGrand Isle County 90 kmEssex County 107 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
4.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Franklin County, 40 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 99 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 7.6 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.6 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 44.9483, -74.4282. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Franklin County, NY 40 km (25 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Franklin County
Clinton County, NY 61 km (38 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Clinton County
St. Lawrence County, NY 72 km (45 mi) NE of here earthquakes near St. Lawrence County
Grand Isle County, VT 90 km (56 mi) W of here earthquakes near Grand Isle County
Essex County, NY 107 km (66 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Essex County
Franklin County, VT 120 km (75 mi) W of here earthquakes near Franklin 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 5 km S of Fort Covington Hamlet, 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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