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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

11 km SW of Rafter J Ranch, Wyoming

· 2.2 km deep · released about 7.3 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Teton County 52 kmBonneville County 59 kmMadison County 78 kmCaribou County 82 kmTeton County 86 kmSublette County 103 kmFremont County 107 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
2.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Teton County, 52 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3072 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 7.3 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,100,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,500,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.3 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 43.3502, -110.8977. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Teton County, ID 52 km (32 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Teton County
Bonneville County, ID 59 km (37 mi) E of here earthquakes near Bonneville County
Madison County, ID 78 km (49 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Madison County
Caribou County, ID 82 km (51 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Caribou County
Teton County, WY 86 km (54 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Teton County
Sublette County, WY 103 km (64 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Sublette County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 7 km WNW of Wilson, Wyoming
  2. 2.0 6 km ESE of Victor, Idaho
  3. 2.3 14 km ESE of Kelly, Wyoming
  4. 1.5 9 km NE of Irwin, Idaho
  5. 2.0 9 km E of Kelly, Wyoming
  6. 2.0 17 km S of Victor, Idaho
  7. 1.6 10 km NNW of Alpine Northeast, Wyoming
  8. 2.2 5 km NE of Alpine Northeast, Wyoming
  9. 3.1 11 km WNW of Hoback, Wyoming
  10. 2.0 14 km SSE of Victor, Idaho
  11. 2.1 15 km SW of Rafter J Ranch, Wyoming
  12. 2.4 15 km WSW of Rafter J Ranch, Wyoming
  13. 1.7 2 km ESE of Alpine Northeast, Wyoming
  14. 1.9 15 km NNW of Alpine Northeast, Wyoming
  15. 1.7 16 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 65,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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