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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.4ml

6 km N of Stanley, Idaho

· 3.9 km deep · released about 140 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Custer County 55 kmBoise County 70 kmValley County 84 kmCamas County 87 kmElmore County 107 kmLemhi County 110 kmGem County 119 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 2.4 (ml)
Depth
3.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Custer County, 55 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2321 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 140 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 110,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 78,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 6.9× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 140 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 44.2790, -114.9378. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Custer County, ID 55 km (34 mi) W of here earthquakes near Custer County
Boise County, ID 70 km (43 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Boise County
Valley County, ID 84 km (52 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Valley County
Camas County, ID 87 km (54 mi) N of here earthquakes near Camas County
Elmore County, ID 107 km (67 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Elmore County
Lemhi County, ID 110 km (68 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Lemhi County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 12 km NNE of Stanley, Idaho
  2. 2.3 11 km WNW of Stanley, Idaho
  3. 2.1 southern Idaho
  4. 2.5 14 km WNW of Stanley, Idaho
  5. 2.6 15 km NW of Stanley, Idaho
  6. 3.1 14 km WNW of Stanley, Idaho
  7. 2.6 27 km NW of Stanley, Idaho
  8. 1.8 42 km NNW of Stanley, Idaho
  9. 2.6 13 km NW of Stanley, Idaho
  10. 2.8 12 km WNW of Stanley, Idaho
  11. 3.0 13 km WNW of Stanley, Idaho
  12. 2.6 8 km NNW of Stanley, Idaho
  13. 2.0 21 km WNW of Stanley, Idaho
  14. 2.6 13 km NW of Stanley, Idaho
  15. 2.6 13 km NNE of Stanley, Idaho

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 6.5 on 2020-03-31 — it released about 1,200,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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