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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

5 km WSW of Rafter J Ranch, Wyoming

· 7.2 km deep · released about 12 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Teton County 49 kmBonneville County 62 kmMadison County 77 kmTeton County 80 kmCaribou County 88 kmFremont County 104 kmSublette County 104 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
7.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Teton County, 49 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3422 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 12 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 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 870,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 78× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 12 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 43.4025, -110.8597. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Teton County, ID 49 km (30 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Teton County
Bonneville County, ID 62 km (38 mi) E of here earthquakes near Bonneville County
Madison County, ID 77 km (48 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Madison County
Teton County, WY 80 km (50 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Teton County
Caribou County, ID 88 km (55 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Caribou County
Fremont County, ID 104 km (64 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Fremont County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 17 km N of Alpine Northeast, Wyoming
  2. 1.7 16 km N of Alpine Northeast, Wyoming
  3. 1.5 southern Idaho
  4. 2.4 18 km NNW of Alpine Northeast, Wyoming
  5. 1.6 16 km N of Alpine Northeast, Wyoming
  6. 2.1 16 km N of Alpine Northeast, Wyoming
  7. 1.5 17 km N of Alpine Northeast, Wyoming
  8. 2.2 16 km N of Alpine Northeast, Wyoming
  9. 1.5 16 km WSW of Rafter J Ranch, Wyoming
  10. 2.3 16 km N of Alpine Northeast, Wyoming
  11. 1.8 17 km N of Alpine Northeast, Wyoming
  12. 1.5 18 km N of Alpine Northeast, Wyoming
  13. 1.6 17 km WSW of Rafter J Ranch, Wyoming
  14. 1.6 17 km N of Alpine Northeast, Wyoming
  15. 1.6 17 km N of Alpine Northeast, Wyoming

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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.8 on 2016-08-27 — it released about 39,000 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

On USGS

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