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M 3.1mb_lg

6 km WNW of Huntingdon, Canada

· 8.0 km deep · released about 1,300 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Franklin County 57 kmClinton County 58 kmGrand Isle County 82 kmSt. Lawrence County 94 kmFranklin County 109 kmEssex County 116 kmChittenden County 117 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 3.1 (mb_lg)
Depth
8.0 km below the surface
Felt
381 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Franklin County, 57 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 756 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 381 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,300 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 250,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 11,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 7,900× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.1 about 1,300 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.4× more

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 45.1021, -74.2497. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Franklin County, NY 57 km (35 mi) N of here earthquakes near Franklin County
Clinton County, NY 58 km (36 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Clinton County
Grand Isle County, VT 82 km (51 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Grand Isle County
St. Lawrence County, NY 94 km (59 mi) NE of here earthquakes near St. Lawrence County
Franklin County, VT 109 km (68 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Franklin County
Essex County, NY 116 km (72 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Essex County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 5 km S of Fort Covington Hamlet, New York
  2. 1.6 6 km ESE of Fort Covington Hamlet, New York
  3. 1.7 6 km SSW of Melocheville, Canada
  4. 1.8 13 km SE of Hawkesbury, Canada
  5. 1.6 6 km SW of Rigaud, Canada
  6. 2.5 6 km SSE of Fort Covington Hamlet, New York
  7. 1.9 8 km ESE of Sainte-Martine, Canada
  8. 2.8 11 km SSW of Sainte-Martine, Canada
  9. 2.5 10 km S of Franklin, Canada
  10. 1.8 6 km WNW of Huntingdon, Canada
  11. 2.1 8 km WNW of Huntingdon, 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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