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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0ml

7 km WSW of Maidstone, Vermont

· 5.5 km deep · released about 30 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Essex County 14 kmCoos County 29 kmCaledonia County 40 kmOrleans County 53 kmOxford County 74 kmLamoille County 78 kmGrafton County 78 kmWashington County 85 kmOrange County 89 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (ml)
Depth
5.5 km below the surface
Felt
3 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Essex County, 14 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1576 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 3 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 30 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 32× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 30 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 44.6138, -71.6504. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Essex County, VT 14 km (9 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Essex County
Coos County, NH 29 km (18 mi) W of here earthquakes near Coos County
Caledonia County, VT 40 km (25 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Caledonia County
Orleans County, VT 53 km (33 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Orleans County
Oxford County, ME 74 km (46 mi) W of here earthquakes near Oxford County
Lamoille County, VT 78 km (48 mi) E of here earthquakes near Lamoille 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. 1.7 5 km N of East Haven, Vermont

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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