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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0ml

16 km S of Neihart, Montana

· 4.2 km deep · released about 33 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Meagher County 28 kmJudith Basin County 40 kmWheatland County 72 kmCascade County 77 kmBroadwater County 80 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 2.0 (ml)
Depth
4.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Meagher County, 28 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3164 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 33 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 450,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 320,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 29× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 33 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 46.7880, -110.6992. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Meagher County, MT 28 km (18 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Meagher County
Judith Basin County, MT 40 km (25 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Judith Basin County
Wheatland County, MT 72 km (45 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Wheatland County
Cascade County, MT 77 km (48 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Cascade County
Broadwater County, MT 80 km (49 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Broadwater County
Fergus County, MT 121 km (75 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Fergus County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 9 km ENE of Neihart, Montana
  2. 1.9 23 km SE of White Sulphur Springs, Montana

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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