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M 2.0ml

13 km SW of Farnham, Canada

· 19 km deep · released about 30 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Franklin County 43 kmGrand Isle County 48 kmClinton County 69 kmLamoille County 77 kmOrleans County 80 kmChittenden County 83 kmWashington County 112 kmCaledonia County 115 kmFranklin County 117 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (ml)
Depth
19 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Franklin County, 43 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 987 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 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 45.2135, -73.1160. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Franklin County, VT 43 km (26 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Franklin County
Grand Isle County, VT 48 km (30 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Grand Isle County
Clinton County, NY 69 km (43 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Clinton County
Lamoille County, VT 77 km (48 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Lamoille County
Orleans County, VT 80 km (50 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Orleans County
Chittenden County, VT 83 km (52 mi) N of here earthquakes near Chittenden County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 8 km SSW of Saint-Édouard, Canada
  2. 2.7 4 km NNW of Chazy, New York
  3. 2.0 3 km NW of Chazy, New York
  4. 1.8 0 km S of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Canada
  5. 2.1 5 km SE of Granby, Canada

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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