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M 2.3ml

11 km N of Alpine Northeast, Wyoming

· 3.4 km deep · released about 85 lb of TNT

10 km30 km60 km120 km N Bonneville County 49 kmTeton County 53 kmCaribou County 71 kmMadison County 74 kmTeton County 96 kmSublette County 108 kmFremont County 109 kmBingham County 112 kmBear Lake 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
3.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Bonneville County, 49 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2590 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 85 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 5.8 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 130,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 11× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 85 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 43.2993, -111.0270. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Bonneville County, ID 49 km (31 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Bonneville County
Teton County, ID 53 km (33 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 74 km (46 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Madison County
Teton County, WY 96 km (60 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Teton County
Sublette County, WY 108 km (67 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

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

  1. 1.7 1 km N of Kelly, Wyoming
  2. 1.5 4 km SSE of Hoback, Wyoming
  3. 1.5 13 km SSW of Hoback, Wyoming
  4. 1.6 2 km E of Jackson, Wyoming
  5. 1.7 7 km ESE of Hoback, Wyoming
  6. 2.1 2 km NW of Alpine Northeast, Wyoming
  7. 1.8 4 km SE of Moose Wilson Road, Wyoming
  8. 1.8 2 km NNE of Jackson, Wyoming
  9. 1.9 4 km NNE of Jackson, Wyoming
  10. 2.7 4 km NE of Jackson, Wyoming
  11. 1.6 11 km S of Victor, Idaho
  12. 1.6 3 km ENE of Alpine Northeast, Wyoming
  13. 2.2 18 km WSW of Alpine Northwest, Wyoming
  14. 2.3 8 km W of Bondurant, Wyoming
  15. 1.6 7 km WNW of Bondurant, 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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