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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.6mb_lg

15 km N of Quinn, South Dakota

· 5.0 km deep · released about 240 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.6 (mb_lg)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity I
Nearest
Haakon County, 48 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1857 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 240 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 63,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 45,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 240 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 44.1263, -102.0970. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Haakon County, SD 48 km (30 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Haakon County
Pennington County, SD 60 km (37 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Pennington County
Jackson County, SD 63 km (39 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Jackson County
Meade County, SD 72 km (45 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Meade County
Oglala Lakota County, SD 96 km (59 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Oglala Lakota County
Ziebach County, SD 102 km (63 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Ziebach County

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

Aftershocks so far

1 earthquake has been recorded within 50 km since this one.

  1. 2.6 19 km NW of Wasta, South Dakota

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.

On USGS

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