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M 2.1ml

9 km W of Hoback, Wyoming

· 4.6 km deep · released about 44 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Bonneville County 60 kmTeton County 60 kmCaribou County 75 kmMadison County 84 kmTeton County 95 kmSublette County 98 kmBear Lake County 114 kmFremont County 116 kmLincoln County 117 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.1 (ml)
Depth
4.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Bonneville County, 60 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2422 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 44 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 340,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 240,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 22× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 44 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 43.2663, -110.9038. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Bonneville County, ID 60 km (37 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Bonneville County
Teton County, ID 60 km (37 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Teton County
Caribou County, ID 75 km (46 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Caribou County
Madison County, ID 84 km (52 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Madison County
Teton County, WY 95 km (59 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Teton County
Sublette County, WY 98 km (61 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Sublette County

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

Aftershocks so far

50 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. 1.7 16 km SE of Kelly, Wyoming
  15. 2.3 8 km W 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.8 on 2016-08-27 — it released about 11,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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