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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

16 km WSW of Lima, Montana

· 0.2 km deep · released about 6.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Clark County 46 kmBeaverhead County 63 kmJefferson County 94 kmLemhi County 96 kmButte County 104 kmMadison County 108 kmFremont County 110 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 1.6 (ml)
Depth
0.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Clark County, 46 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2520 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 6.6 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,300,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,600,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 140× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 6.6 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 44.5713, -112.7793. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Clark County, ID 46 km (29 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Clark County
Beaverhead County, MT 63 km (39 mi) S of here earthquakes near Beaverhead County
Jefferson County, ID 94 km (58 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Jefferson County
Lemhi County, ID 96 km (60 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Lemhi County
Butte County, ID 104 km (64 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Butte County
Madison County, MT 108 km (67 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Madison County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 40 km SW of Dillon, Montana
  2. 1.5 39 km SW of Dillon, Montana
  3. 1.6 39 km SW of Dillon, Montana
  4. 1.5 17 km SSW of Lima, Montana
  5. 1.6 40 km SW of Dillon, Montana
  6. 1.7 29 km SSW of Dillon, Montana
  7. 1.5 37 km SSW of Dillon, Montana
  8. 2.5 21 km SW of Lima, Montana
  9. 1.6 3 km ENE of Lima, Montana
  10. 2.0 26 km SE of Leadore, Idaho
  11. 2.6 16 km NE of Lima, Montana
  12. 1.7 6 km E of Lima, Montana
  13. 1.7 8 km E of Lima, Montana
  14. 1.6 7 km E of Lima, Montana
  15. 1.6 8 km E of Lima, 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 36,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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