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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5ml

3 km SSE of Wilson, New York

· 5.0 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
7 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Niagara County, 1 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2073 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 7 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 5.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 180× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.4 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 43.2838, -78.8149. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Niagara County, NY 1 km (1 mi) N of here earthquakes near Niagara County
Orleans County, NY 50 km (31 mi) W of here earthquakes near Orleans County
Erie County, NY 59 km (37 mi) N of here earthquakes near Erie County
Genesee County, NY 59 km (37 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Genesee County
Wyoming County, NY 80 km (50 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Wyoming County
Monroe County, NY 90 km (56 mi) W of here earthquakes near Monroe County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 1 km SSW of Bowmansville, New York
  2. 3.8 1 km NE of West Seneca, 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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