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mining explosion · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.0ml

16 km SE of Hibbing, Minnesota

· 0.0 km deep · released about 950 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N St. Louis County 35 kmItasca County 65 kmCarlton County 81 kmAitkin County 94 kmLake County 105 kmDouglas County 117 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 3.0 (ml)
Depth
0.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
St. Louis County, 35 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2271 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

USGS catalogues this as mining explosion, not an earthquake.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 950 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 16,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 11,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 950 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 47.3256, -92.7843. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
St. Louis County, MN 35 km (22 mi) SW of here earthquakes near St. Louis County
Itasca County, MN 65 km (40 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Itasca County
Carlton County, MN 81 km (50 mi) N of here earthquakes near Carlton County
Aitkin County, MN 94 km (58 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Aitkin County
Lake County, MN 105 km (66 mi) W of here earthquakes near Lake County
Douglas County, WI 117 km (73 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Douglas County

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

Aftershocks so far

60 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.

  1. 3.1 7 km N of Kinney, Minnesota
  2. 3.0 1 km NNE of Mountain Iron, Minnesota
  3. 2.9 4 km N of Virginia, Minnesota
  4. 3.2 9 km N of Parkville, Minnesota
  5. 2.4 15 km SSW of Iron Junction, Minnesota
  6. 3.2 8 km NNE of Kinney, Minnesota
  7. 2.9 3 km WNW of Leonidas, Minnesota
  8. 3.2 1 km SE of Kinney, Minnesota
  9. 2.9 1 km ENE of Kinney, Minnesota
  10. 3.0 5 km NNE of Kinney, Minnesota
  11. 2.8 4 km NW of Hibbing, Minnesota
  12. 2.9 3 km E of Kinney, Minnesota
  13. 2.7 3 km S of Mountain Iron, Minnesota
  14. 3.0 1 km SW of Virginia, Minnesota
  15. 3.0 5 km NNE of Parkville, Minnesota

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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