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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

36 km E of Kelly, Wyoming

· 6.1 km deep · released about 9.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Teton County 45 kmTeton County 83 kmPark County 101 kmSublette County 104 kmMadison County 119 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
6.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Teton County, 45 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2812 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 9.6 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 1,600,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,100,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 99× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 9.6 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 43.6845, -110.1793. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Teton County, WY 45 km (28 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Teton County
Teton County, ID 83 km (52 mi) E of here earthquakes near Teton County
Park County, WY 101 km (63 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Park County
Sublette County, WY 104 km (65 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Sublette County
Madison County, ID 119 km (74 mi) E of here earthquakes near Madison County
Fremont County, ID 120 km (75 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Fremont County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.6 30 km SE of Kelly, Wyoming
  2. 2.0 28 km NNE of Bondurant, Wyoming
  3. 2.7 4 km NE of Jackson, Wyoming
  4. 1.7 16 km SE of Kelly, Wyoming
  5. 1.6 12 km NE of Bondurant, Wyoming
  6. 1.5 32 km ESE of Kelly, Wyoming
  7. 2.2 11 km E of Kelly, Wyoming
  8. 2.0 29 km ESE of Kelly, Wyoming
  9. 1.5 17 km ENE of Bondurant, Wyoming
  10. 1.6 24 km ESE of Kelly, Wyoming
  11. 1.9 36 km NE of Bondurant, Wyoming
  12. 1.5 14 km NE of Kelly, Wyoming
  13. 1.9 32 km ESE of Kelly, Wyoming
  14. 1.9 23 km NE of Kelly, Wyoming
  15. 2.0 33 km ESE 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 3,100 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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