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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0ml

1 km W of North Perry, Ohio

· 5.0 km deep · released about 30 lb of TNT

10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lake County 6 kmAshtabula County 34 kmGeauga County 35 kmCuyahoga County 48 kmTrumbull County 64 kmPortage County 72 kmSummit County 83 kmCrawford County 87 kmErie County 93 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 2.0 (ml)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
13 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Lake County, 6 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 13 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 13 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 30 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 32× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 30 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 41.8111, -81.1390. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lake County, OH 6 km (4 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Lake County
Ashtabula County, OH 34 km (21 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Ashtabula County
Geauga County, OH 35 km (22 mi) N of here earthquakes near Geauga County
Cuyahoga County, OH 48 km (30 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Cuyahoga County
Trumbull County, OH 64 km (40 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Trumbull County
Portage County, OH 72 km (44 mi) N of here earthquakes near Portage 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.0 on 2019-06-10 — it released about 1,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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