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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

6 km NW of Wilson, Wyoming

· 1.1 km deep · released about 9 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Teton County 33 kmBonneville County 58 kmMadison County 64 kmTeton County 69 kmFremont County 87 kmCaribou County 98 kmJefferson County 115 kmSublette 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 1.6 (ml)
Depth
1.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Teton County, 33 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1993 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 9 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 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 110× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 9 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 43.5423, -110.9335. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Teton County, ID 33 km (21 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Teton County
Bonneville County, ID 58 km (36 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Bonneville County
Madison County, ID 64 km (40 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Madison County
Teton County, WY 69 km (43 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Teton County
Fremont County, ID 87 km (54 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Fremont County
Caribou County, ID 98 km (61 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Caribou County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 6 km W of Hoback, Wyoming
  2. 1.7 4 km ENE of Hoback, Wyoming
  3. 1.8 6 km ENE of Hoback, Wyoming
  4. 1.7 14 km E of Irwin, Idaho
  5. 1.5 2 km N of Rafter J Ranch, Wyoming
  6. 1.8 19 km E of Jackson, Wyoming
  7. 1.7 11 km ENE of Swan Valley, Idaho
  8. 2.7 1 km NE of Driggs, Idaho
  9. 1.6 12 km E of Jackson, Wyoming
  10. 1.6 13 km E of Jackson, Wyoming
  11. 1.5 12 km E of Jackson, Wyoming
  12. 1.7 8 km NW of Alpine Northwest, Wyoming
  13. 2.2 Wyoming
  14. 2.8 21 km ESE of Kelly, Wyoming
  15. 2.2 21 km ESE of Kelly, 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 4.0 on 2016-02-26 — it released about 3,300 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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