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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

1 km NE of Aurora, Maine

· 7.9 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Hancock County 33 kmWashington County 57 kmPenobscot County 67 kmWaldo County 77 kmKnox County 108 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 1.7 (ml)
Depth
7.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Hancock County, 33 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 823 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 11 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 89× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 44.8622, -68.3136. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Hancock County, ME 33 km (21 mi) N of here earthquakes near Hancock County
Washington County, ME 57 km (35 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Washington County
Penobscot County, ME 67 km (42 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Penobscot County
Waldo County, ME 77 km (48 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Waldo County
Knox County, ME 108 km (67 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Knox County
Kennebec County, ME 125 km (78 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Kennebec County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 15 km S of Lowell, Maine
  2. 1.8 2 km NNW of Ellsworth, Maine
  3. 1.5 4 km WNW of Milbridge, Maine
  4. 1.8 7 km NNE of Burlington, Maine

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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