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M 2.4ml

Western Montana

· 13 km deep · released about 120 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lake County 55 kmMissoula County 75 kmTeton County 84 kmPowell County 90 kmLewis and Clark County 91 kmFlathead County 93 kmPondera County 110 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.4 (ml)
Depth
13 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lake County, 55 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2267 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 120 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 5.8 120,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 86,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 7.7× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 120 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 47.5998, -113.3577. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lake County, MT 55 km (34 mi) E of here earthquakes near Lake County
Missoula County, MT 75 km (47 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Missoula County
Teton County, MT 84 km (52 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Teton County
Powell County, MT 90 km (56 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Powell County
Lewis and Clark County, MT 91 km (56 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Lewis and Clark County
Flathead County, MT 93 km (58 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Flathead County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.5 24 km E of Swan Lake, Montana
  2. 2.4 27 km E of Swan Lake, Montana
  3. 2.2 21 km ENE of Seeley Lake, Montana
  4. 2.1 25 km ENE of Seeley Lake, Montana
  5. 2.0 39 km ENE of Seeley Lake, Montana
  6. 1.5 22 km ENE of Seeley Lake, Montana
  7. 2.0 40 km E of Condon, Montana
  8. 3.0 17 km SSE of Swan Lake, Montana
  9. 1.5 6 km SW of Condon, Montana
  10. 1.6 15 km ESE of Condon, Montana
  11. 1.5 20 km ENE of Seeley Lake, Montana
  12. 2.1 18 km SSE of Swan Lake, Montana
  13. 1.8 17 km SSW of Condon, Montana
  14. 1.5 39 km NNE of Ovando, Montana
  15. 1.9 17 km SSW of Condon, 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.

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