Tuesday, Jan 20, 2026 7:47 am | 1 hour ago | By: EarthquakeMonitor
Magnitude 3.0 earthquake – Christian County, 46 km northeast of Litchfield, Montgomery County, Ilinois, USA, on Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 01:27 (GMT -6)
A magnitude 3.0 quake struck just 11 minutes ago near Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois, USA, the United States Geological Survey reported. According to the U.S. National and International Seismic Agency, the quake hit early morning on Tuesday, January 20, 2026, at 1:27 a.m. local time, at a very shallow depth of 0.1 km below the epicenter. The magnitude, exact location of the epicenter and earthquake depth may still be corrected in the next few hours as seismologists manually evaluate the data and refine their calculations.
A second agency, The Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS), gave the quake a different magnitude of 3.1. A third agency, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC), reported the magnitude of the quake as 3.5.
Some places near the epicenter where the quake may have been felt based on preliminary estimates are Pana (pop. 5,600 at 10 km away, very slight vibration expected), Nokomis (pop. 2,200 at 13 km away, very slight vibration), Assumption (1,100 pop at 19 km away, very slight vibration) and Taylorville (10,900 pop at 20 km). km distance, very slight vibration). This was possible in Shelbyville (pop. 4,600, 35 km away), Hillsboro (pop. 5,700, 36 km away), Litchfield (pop. 6,900, 46 km away), Vandalia (pop. 7,100, 49 km away), Decatur (pop. 73,300, 54 km away) and Springfield (pop. 114,400, 60 km away). Quakes probably won’t be felt.
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Date and time: Jan 20, 2026 01:27 (GMT -6) local time (20 Jan 2026 07:27 GMT)
Magnitude: 3.0
Depth of epicenter: 0.13 km
Location of the epicenter geographically Latitude / Longitude: 39.39°N / 89.19°W 
(Christian County, Illinois, United States)
Primary data source: USGS
