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M 4.0mb

1 km NW of Timberlake, Ohio

· 2.0 km deep · released about 15 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Cuyahoga County 19 kmLake County 24 kmGeauga County 31 kmPortage County 61 kmSummit County 62 kmAshtabula County 64 kmLorain County 66 kmTrumbull County 71 kmMedina County 73 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 4.0 (mb)
Depth
2.0 km below the surface
Felt
5904 reports · strongest reported intensity V
Measured shaking
intensity V (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
green
Nearest
Cuyahoga County, 19 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 194 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon. 5904 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 15 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 11,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 500× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 350× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.0 about 15 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 32× more

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 41.6797, -81.4564. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Cuyahoga County, OH 19 km (12 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Cuyahoga County
Lake County, OH 24 km (15 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Lake County
Geauga County, OH 31 km (19 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Geauga County
Portage County, OH 61 km (38 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Portage County
Summit County, OH 62 km (39 mi) N of here earthquakes near Summit County
Ashtabula County, OH 64 km (40 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Ashtabula County

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

Aftershocks so far

49 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
  10. 2.3 2 km SSE of Madison, Ohio
  11. 2.5 4 km ESE of Madison, Ohio
  12. 2.0 2 km ESE of Madison, Ohio
  13. 1.8 5 km NW of Lakeline, Ohio
  14. 2.2 2 km ESE of Madison, Ohio
  15. 1.7 1 km ESE of 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.

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