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M 2.0ml
Earthquake near Bozeman, MT
No earthquake was likely felt in Bozeman in the 24 hours to 7:46 am MST (14:46 UTC). The last one was M 3.0, 17 km (10 mi) NW, at 7:42 am MDT on 1 June 2024, estimated intensity II (weak) in town; 20 felt reports to USGS. Every earthquake near Bozeman
This page: a magnitude 2.0 earthquake was recorded 34 km (21 mi) west-southwest of Bozeman, MT, at 6:03 am MDT on 26 September 2019 (12:03 UTC), 2.3 km deep.
USGS: 18 km SW of Amsterdam, Montana
32 km (20 mi) WSW of Bozeman, MT
- When
- 6:03 am MDT on 26 September 2019 ()
- Where
- 34 km (21 mi) west-southwest of Bozeman, MT · earthquakes near Bozeman
- Montana today
- every earthquake in Montana in the last 24 hours
- Magnitude
- M 2.0 (ml)
- Depth
- 2.3 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Gallatin County, 26 km ESE
- Nearest mapped fault
- Madison fault, 24 km from its surface trace — near is not the same as on
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2603 days ago
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This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.
At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 15 km (9 mi) from the epicentre. In Bozeman, 34 km away, the estimate is intensity II (weak). Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.
Earthquakes near other towns within 30 km: Four Corners, Belgrade, Manhattan.
How big was it?
This earthquake released about 26 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.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 580,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 410,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 36× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 2.0 about 26 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.
For this area
The largest earthquake within 50 km since 2016 was M 4.2 on 2019-08-16 — about 2,300 times the energy of this one.
Before 2016, the USGS record since 1900 lists no earthquake of M5 or more within 50 km.
Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.
Where
Epicentre 45.6197, -111.4610. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction from the epicentre | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gallatin County, MT | 26 km (16 mi) | ESE | earthquakes near Gallatin County |
| Madison County, MT | 48 km (30 mi) | SW | earthquakes near Madison County |
| Jefferson County, MT | 73 km (45 mi) | NW | earthquakes near Jefferson County |
| Park County, MT | 74 km (46 mi) | ESE | earthquakes near Park County |
| Broadwater County, MT | 79 km (49 mi) | N | earthquakes near Broadwater County |
| Silver Bow County, MT | 98 km (61 mi) | WNW | earthquakes near Silver Bow 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.
- 1.9 Western Montana
- 1.9 6 km E of Willow Creek, Montana
- 2.2 6 km NNE of Manhattan, Montana
- 1.6 5 km NE of Logan, Montana
- 1.6 13 km SSE of Pony, Montana
- 2.1 6 km NNE of Manhattan, Montana
- 2.0 4 km N of Logan, Montana
- 1.6 4 km NNW of Logan, Montana
- 2.6 4 km W of Belgrade, Montana
- 1.8 Western Montana
- 2.4 2 km SW of Ponderosa Pines, Montana
- 1.6 2 km ENE of Manhattan, Montana
- 2.0 3 km WNW of Manhattan, Montana
- 2.3 2 km W of Manhattan, Montana
- 1.7 8 km S of Ponderosa Pines, 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.
On USGS
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- Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
- ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one
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