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M 2.3ml

29 km SSW of Irwin, Idaho

· 5.0 km deep · released about 91 lb of TNT

10 km30 km60 km120 km N Bonneville County 31 kmCaribou County 43 kmTeton County 69 kmMadison County 73 kmBingham County 80 kmBannock County 84 kmBear Lake County 97 kmJefferson County 102 kmFranklin County 115 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 2.3 (ml)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Bonneville County, 31 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2781 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 91 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 170,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 120,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 10× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 91 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 43.1595, -111.4178. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Bonneville County, ID 31 km (19 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Bonneville County
Caribou County, ID 43 km (27 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Caribou County
Teton County, ID 69 km (43 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Teton County
Madison County, ID 73 km (45 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Madison County
Bingham County, ID 80 km (50 mi) E of here earthquakes near Bingham County
Bannock County, ID 84 km (52 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Bannock County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 7 km E of Alpine Northeast, Wyoming
  2. 2.2 7 km E of Alpine Northeast, Wyoming
  3. 1.6 8 km E of Alpine Northeast, Wyoming
  4. 1.9 10 km E of Alpine Northeast, Wyoming
  5. 2.0 8 km ESE of Alpine Northeast, Wyoming
  6. 1.6 31 km WNW of Freedom, Idaho
  7. 2.1 2 km NW of Alpine Northeast, Wyoming
  8. 1.6 11 km S of Victor, Idaho
  9. 1.6 3 km ENE of Alpine Northeast, Wyoming
  10. 2.2 18 km WSW of Alpine Northwest, Wyoming
  11. 1.9 22 km SSW of Irwin, Idaho
  12. 1.9 16 km SW of Wilson, Wyoming
  13. 1.6 21 km SSW of Irwin, Idaho
  14. 1.9 1 km E of Alpine Northeast, Wyoming
  15. 1.7 southern Idaho

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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