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M 1.6ml

8 km NE of Alpine Northeast, Wyoming

· 7.1 km deep · released about 8.7 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Bonneville County 57 kmTeton County 60 kmCaribou County 71 kmMadison County 82 kmTeton County 97 kmSublette County 100 kmBear Lake County 112 kmFremont County 115 kmLincoln County 116 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
7.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Bonneville County, 57 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2746 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 8.7 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 8.7 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 43.2568, -110.9460. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Bonneville County, ID 57 km (35 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Bonneville County
Teton County, ID 60 km (37 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Teton County
Caribou County, ID 71 km (44 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Caribou County
Madison County, ID 82 km (51 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Madison County
Teton County, WY 97 km (61 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Teton County
Sublette County, WY 100 km (62 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Sublette County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 7 km SSE of Hoback, Wyoming
  2. 1.9 1 km E of Alpine Northeast, Wyoming
  3. 1.7 southern Idaho
  4. 1.6 5 km SSW of Alpine, Wyoming
  5. 2.7 6 km S of Alpine, Wyoming
  6. 2.2 southern Idaho
  7. 1.6 6 km NW of Wilson, Wyoming
  8. 2.1 12 km W of Wilson, Wyoming
  9. 1.7 10 km SSE of Victor, Idaho
  10. 2.3 5 km SSW of Driggs, Idaho
  11. 1.6 23 km N of Bondurant, Wyoming
  12. 2.2 35 km W of Freedom, Idaho
  13. 1.9 8 km NW of Hoback, Wyoming
  14. 1.8 6 km NNE of Alpine Northeast, Wyoming
  15. 2.3 3 km SSE of Jackson, 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.

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