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M 2.0ml

29 km N of Lincoln, Montana

· 21 km deep · released about 29 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lewis and Clark County 28 kmPowell County 45 kmTeton County 74 kmMissoula County 91 kmCascade County 104 kmGranite County 106 kmLake County 113 kmPondera County 118 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (ml)
Depth
21 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lewis and Clark County, 28 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2730 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 29 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 520,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 370,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 33× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 29 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 47.2203, -112.7230. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lewis and Clark County, MT 28 km (17 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Lewis and Clark County
Powell County, MT 45 km (28 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Powell County
Teton County, MT 74 km (46 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Teton County
Missoula County, MT 91 km (57 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Missoula County
Cascade County, MT 104 km (65 mi) W of here earthquakes near Cascade County
Granite County, MT 106 km (66 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Granite County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 12 km ESE of Lincoln, Montana
  2. 2.5 39 km NNE of Ovando, Montana
  3. 2.5 15 km ESE of Lincoln, Montana
  4. 1.5 13 km ESE of Lincoln, Montana
  5. 2.3 12 km ESE of Lincoln, Montana
  6. 2.3 Western Montana
  7. 1.5 16 km SE of Lincoln, Montana
  8. 1.8 14 km ESE of Lincoln, Montana
  9. 1.6 Western Montana
  10. 2.4 14 km ESE of Lincoln, Montana
  11. 2.0 12 km ESE of Lincoln, Montana
  12. 1.9 14 km SE of Lincoln, Montana
  13. 1.6 14 km SE of Lincoln, Montana
  14. 3.3 40 km NE of Seeley Lake, Montana
  15. 2.7 20 km ENE of Seeley Lake, Montana

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 5.8 on 2017-07-06 — it released about 520,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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