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M 1.7ml

5 km NW of Greene, Maine

· 5.6 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Androscoggin County 7 kmKennebec County 39 kmSagadahoc County 44 kmCumberland County 48 kmOxford County 53 kmLincoln County 60 kmFranklin County 85 kmWaldo County 89 kmCarroll County 91 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
5.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Androscoggin County, 7 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2150 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 11 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 89× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 44.2280, -70.1847. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Androscoggin County, ME 7 km (4 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Androscoggin County
Kennebec County, ME 39 km (24 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Kennebec County
Sagadahoc County, ME 44 km (27 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Sagadahoc County
Cumberland County, ME 48 km (30 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Cumberland County
Oxford County, ME 53 km (33 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Oxford County
Lincoln County, ME 60 km (37 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Lincoln County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 5 km SSE of Monmouth, Maine
  2. 1.8 2 km SW of Gray, Maine
  3. 1.7 6 km S of Livermore, Maine
  4. 1.6 6 km W of Oakland, Maine
  5. 1.8 6 km SSE of Turner, Maine
  6. 1.7 6 km SSW of Livermore, Maine
  7. 1.6 6 km ENE of Buckfield, Maine
  8. 2.8 6 km W of Gardiner, Maine
  9. 1.7 4 km S of Carthage, Maine
  10. 1.5 6 km S of Monmouth, Maine
  11. 2.5 6 km N of Turner, Maine
  12. 2.4 Maine
  13. 1.5 2 km ENE of Lewiston, Maine
  14. 1.8 2 km SSE of West Paris, 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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