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M 1.9ml

3 km SW of West Hartford, Connecticut

· 1.8 km deep · released about 21 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Capitol Planning Region 18 kmNaugatuck Valley Planning Region 36 kmNorthwest Hills Planning Region 40 kmLower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region 42 kmHampden County 46 kmSouth Central Connecticut Planning Region 50 kmSoutheastern Connecticut Planning Region 62 kmNortheastern Connecticut Planning Region 67 kmHampshire County 68 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 1.9 (ml)
Depth
1.8 km below the surface
Felt
53 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Capitol Planning Region, 18 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 905 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 53 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 21 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 710,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 500,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 45× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 21 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 41.7355, -72.7692. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Capitol Planning Region, CT 18 km (11 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Capitol Planning Region
Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, CT 36 km (22 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Naugatuck Valley Planning Region
Northwest Hills Planning Region, CT 40 km (25 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Northwest Hills Planning Region
Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, CT 42 km (26 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region
Hampden County, MA 46 km (29 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Hampden County
South Central Connecticut Planning Region, CT 50 km (31 mi) N of here earthquakes near South Central Connecticut Planning Region

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 2 km SSW of Deep River Center, Connecticut
  2. 1.9 2 km NNE of East Haddam, Connecticut
  3. 2.2 1 km S of Moodus, Connecticut
  4. 1.9 2 km N of East Haddam, Connecticut
  5. 2.0 3 km E of Plainville, Connecticut
  6. 1.5 3 km NNW of Killingworth, Connecticut
  7. 1.6 2 km ENE of Newington, Connecticut
  8. 1.8 2 km SSW of Moodus, Connecticut
  9. 2.2 1 km NNE of Moodus, Connecticut
  10. 1.7 3 km SSE of East Hampton, Connecticut

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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