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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0ml

7 km ENE of Toston, Montana

· -0.3 km deep · released about 29 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Broadwater County 18 kmMeagher County 54 kmJefferson County 55 kmGallatin County 77 kmPark County 104 kmSilver Bow County 107 kmMadison County 107 kmSweet Grass County 117 kmWheatland 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 2.0 (ml)
Depth
-0.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Broadwater County, 18 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2291 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 29 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.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 520,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 370,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 33× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 29 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 46.2027, -111.3495. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Broadwater County, MT 18 km (11 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Broadwater County
Meagher County, MT 54 km (33 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Meagher County
Jefferson County, MT 55 km (34 mi) E of here earthquakes near Jefferson County
Gallatin County, MT 77 km (48 mi) N of here earthquakes near Gallatin County
Park County, MT 104 km (64 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Park County
Silver Bow County, MT 107 km (66 mi) ENE of here 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. 1.6 14 km SSE of Elkhorn, Montana
  2. 1.5 6 km W of Townsend, Montana
  3. 1.7 8 km WSW of Townsend, Montana
  4. 1.6 8 km WSW of Townsend, Montana
  5. 2.2 2 km SE of Three Forks, Montana
  6. 1.6 5 km SW of Ponderosa Pines, Montana
  7. 2.2 5 km WSW of Ponderosa Pines, Montana
  8. 1.5 8 km ENE of Toston, Montana
  9. 1.5 6 km SSW of The Silos, Montana
  10. 1.5 7 km W of Townsend, Montana
  11. 1.6 7 km WSW of Townsend, Montana
  12. 1.9 14 km SW of Radersburg, Montana
  13. 1.9 14 km SW of Radersburg, Montana
  14. 1.6 15 km SW of Radersburg, Montana
  15. 2.2 10 km NE of Toston, 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 4.2 on 2019-08-16 — it released about 2,100 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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