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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

10 km NE of Kelly, Wyoming

· 10 km deep · released about 10 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Teton County 41 kmTeton County 56 kmMadison County 92 kmBonneville County 94 kmFremont County 97 kmSublette County 114 kmPark County 116 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
10 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Teton County, 41 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2735 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 10 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 1,500,000× 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 95× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 10 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 43.6913, -110.5258. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Teton County, WY 41 km (25 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Teton County
Teton County, ID 56 km (35 mi) E of here earthquakes near Teton County
Madison County, ID 92 km (57 mi) E of here earthquakes near Madison County
Bonneville County, ID 94 km (59 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Bonneville County
Fremont County, ID 97 km (60 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Fremont County
Sublette County, WY 114 km (71 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Sublette County

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

Aftershocks so far

54 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. 1.6 6 km NW of Wilson, Wyoming
  5. 1.9 29 km ENE of Alta, Wyoming
  6. 3.6 17 km ESE of Kelly, Wyoming
  7. 2.1 12 km W of Wilson, Wyoming
  8. 1.7 10 km SSE of Victor, Idaho
  9. 1.7 11 km ENE of Alta, Wyoming
  10. 2.4 46 km NNE of Alta, Wyoming
  11. 2.0 45 km NE of Alta, Wyoming
  12. 1.6 23 km N of Bondurant, Wyoming
  13. 1.9 8 km NW of Hoback, Wyoming
  14. 2.3 3 km SSE of Jackson, Wyoming
  15. 2.2 35 km ENE 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 3,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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