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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

15 km SW of Radersburg, Montana

· 6.0 km deep · released about 8.1 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Jefferson County 22 kmBroadwater County 33 kmSilver Bow County 72 kmGallatin County 81 kmMeagher County 85 kmMadison County 87 kmDeer Lodge County 105 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
6.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Jefferson County, 22 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1977 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 8.1 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 1,900,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,300,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 120× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 8.1 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 46.1058, -111.7810. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Jefferson County, MT 22 km (13 mi) E of here earthquakes near Jefferson County
Broadwater County, MT 33 km (21 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Broadwater County
Silver Bow County, MT 72 km (45 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Silver Bow County
Gallatin County, MT 81 km (50 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Gallatin County
Meagher County, MT 85 km (53 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Meagher County
Madison County, MT 87 km (54 mi) N of here earthquakes near Madison County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 6 km WSW of Townsend, Montana
  2. 1.6 8 km WSW of Townsend, Montana
  3. 1.9 7 km NNE of Manhattan, Montana
  4. 1.8 6 km W of Townsend, Montana
  5. 1.6 9 km SSW of The Silos, Montana
  6. 1.8 8 km WSW of Townsend, Montana
  7. 1.9 8 km WSW of Townsend, Montana
  8. 3.1 6 km NNW of Three Forks, Montana
  9. 2.3 Western Montana
  10. 2.3 3 km NW of Three Forks, Montana
  11. 2.1 3 km NNW of Three Forks, Montana
  12. 2.0 3 km NNW of Three Forks, Montana
  13. 1.6 2 km WNW of Townsend, Montana
  14. 1.6 3 km S of Logan, Montana
  15. 1.6 6 km NW of Ponderosa Pines, 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 7,400 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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