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M 2.1ml

28 km NE of Kelly, Wyoming

· 7.0 km deep · released about 44 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Teton County 30 kmTeton County 69 kmPark County 99 kmFremont County 103 kmMadison County 105 kmBonneville County 111 kmSublette County 118 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 2.1 (ml)
Depth
7.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Teton County, 30 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2960 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 44 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 340,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 240,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 22× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 44 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 43.7843, -110.3518. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Teton County, WY 30 km (19 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Teton County
Teton County, ID 69 km (43 mi) E of here earthquakes near Teton County
Park County, WY 99 km (62 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Park County
Fremont County, ID 103 km (64 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Fremont County
Madison County, ID 105 km (65 mi) E of here earthquakes near Madison County
Bonneville County, ID 111 km (69 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Bonneville County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 33 km ESE of Kelly, Wyoming
  2. 1.9 23 km NNE of Bondurant, Wyoming
  3. 1.5 35 km NNE of Alta, Wyoming
  4. 2.1 65 km NNE of Kelly, Wyoming
  5. 1.9 29 km ENE of Alta, Wyoming
  6. 3.6 17 km ESE of Kelly, Wyoming
  7. 2.4 46 km NNE of Alta, Wyoming
  8. 2.0 45 km NE of Alta, Wyoming
  9. 1.6 23 km N of Bondurant, Wyoming
  10. 2.3 3 km SSE of Jackson, Wyoming
  11. 2.2 35 km ENE of Kelly, Wyoming
  12. 1.9 38 km NW of Dubois, Wyoming
  13. 3.7 17 km E of Kelly, Wyoming
  14. 1.6 18 km SSE of Kelly, Wyoming
  15. 2.3 16 km E of Kelly, 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 4.0 on 2016-02-26 — it released about 680 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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