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M 2.3mb_lg

2 km ENE of Thurso, Canada

· 10 km deep · released about 85 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (mb_lg)
Depth
10 km below the surface
Felt
21 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Franklin County, 133 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 765 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 21 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 85 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 130,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 11× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 85 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 45.6040, -75.2222. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Franklin County, NY 133 km (83 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Franklin County
Clinton County, NY 152 km (94 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Clinton 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. 2.0 27 km N of Buckingham, Canada
  2. 1.6 25 km SE of Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel, Canada
  3. 2.5 23 km NE of Saint-André-Avellin, Canada
  4. 1.7 18 km ESE of Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel, Canada
  5. 1.7 3 km NNW of Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel, Canada
  6. 1.7 26 km ESE of Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel, Canada
  7. 1.6 29 km ESE of Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel, Canada
  8. 2.7 26 km N of L'Orignal, Canada
  9. 2.3 27 km NE of Saint-André-Avellin, Canada
  10. 1.8 23 km NE of Saint-André-Avellin, Canada
  11. 2.2 16 km ESE of Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel, 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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