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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

37 km NNE of Bondurant, Wyoming

· 6.0 km deep · released about 9 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Teton County 64 kmSublette County 84 kmTeton County 88 kmBonneville County 117 kmPark County 120 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
6.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Teton County, 64 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2941 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 9 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 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 110× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 9 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 43.4988, -110.1770. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Teton County, WY 64 km (40 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Teton County
Sublette County, WY 84 km (52 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Sublette County
Teton County, ID 88 km (55 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Teton County
Bonneville County, ID 117 km (73 mi) E of here earthquakes near Bonneville County
Park County, WY 120 km (75 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Park County
Madison County, ID 123 km (77 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Madison County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 28 km NNE of Bondurant, Wyoming
  2. 1.9 7 km SE of Bondurant, Wyoming
  3. 1.7 16 km SE of Kelly, Wyoming
  4. 2.3 8 km W of Bondurant, Wyoming
  5. 1.6 7 km WNW of Bondurant, Wyoming
  6. 2.6 9 km W of Bondurant, Wyoming
  7. 1.6 12 km NE of Bondurant, Wyoming
  8. 1.9 9 km W of Bondurant, Wyoming
  9. 1.5 32 km ESE of Kelly, Wyoming
  10. 2.0 11 km WSW of Bondurant, Wyoming
  11. 1.9 9 km W of Bondurant, Wyoming
  12. 2.2 11 km E of Kelly, Wyoming
  13. 2.5 33 km SSW of Dubois, Wyoming
  14. 2.0 29 km ESE of Kelly, Wyoming
  15. 1.5 17 km ENE of Bondurant, 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 53,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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