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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.9ml

29 km SW of Dillon, Montana

· 3.7 km deep · released about 21 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Beaverhead County 12 kmLemhi County 78 kmMadison County 84 kmClark County 93 kmSilver Bow County 98 kmDeer Lodge County 120 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 1.9 (ml)
Depth
3.7 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Beaverhead County, 12 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2624 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 21 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 730,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 520,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 46× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 21 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 45.0305, -112.9037. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Beaverhead County, MT 12 km (7 mi) S of here earthquakes near Beaverhead County
Lemhi County, ID 78 km (49 mi) E of here earthquakes near Lemhi County
Madison County, MT 84 km (52 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Madison County
Clark County, ID 93 km (58 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Clark County
Silver Bow County, MT 98 km (61 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Silver Bow County
Deer Lodge County, MT 120 km (74 mi) S of here earthquakes near Deer Lodge County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 41 km SW of Dillon, Montana
  2. 2.7 Idaho-Montana border region
  3. 1.5 13 km N of Dillon, Montana
  4. 1.6 40 km SW of Dillon, Montana
  5. 1.6 40 km SW of Dillon, Montana
  6. 1.5 41 km SW of Dillon, Montana
  7. 1.7 29 km SSW of Dillon, Montana
  8. 1.7 41 km SW of Dillon, Montana
  9. 1.5 37 km SSW of Dillon, Montana
  10. 1.6 17 km ESE of Dillon, Montana
  11. 1.5 16 km E of Dillon, Montana
  12. 1.6 17 km ESE of Dillon, Montana
  13. 1.5 19 km N of Dillon, Montana
  14. 1.5 30 km W of Dillon, Montana
  15. 1.6 18 km NNE of Dillon, 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 4.6 on 2019-04-09 — it released about 12,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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