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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

5 km SW of Ponderosa Pines, Montana

· -0.1 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Broadwater County 37 kmJefferson County 51 kmGallatin County 57 kmMeagher County 76 kmMadison County 84 kmPark County 91 kmSilver Bow County 96 kmSweet Grass County 116 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
-0.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Broadwater County, 37 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1935 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 7.6 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 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.6 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 45.9992, -111.4245. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Broadwater County, MT 37 km (23 mi) S of here earthquakes near Broadwater County
Jefferson County, MT 51 km (32 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Jefferson County
Gallatin County, MT 57 km (36 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Gallatin County
Meagher County, MT 76 km (47 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Meagher County
Madison County, MT 84 km (52 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Madison County
Park County, MT 91 km (57 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Park County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 2 km WSW of Logan, Montana
  2. 1.8 5 km NW of Logan, Montana
  3. 1.7 1 km ENE of Churchill, Montana
  4. 2.2 11 km NE of Townsend, Montana
  5. 1.7 9 km WSW of Townsend, Montana
  6. 2.0 4 km W of Three Forks, Montana
  7. 1.6 6 km WSW of Townsend, Montana
  8. 1.6 8 km WSW of Townsend, Montana
  9. 1.9 7 km NNE of Manhattan, Montana
  10. 1.8 6 km W of Townsend, Montana
  11. 1.6 9 km SSW of The Silos, Montana
  12. 1.8 8 km WSW of Townsend, Montana
  13. 1.9 8 km WSW of Townsend, Montana
  14. 3.1 6 km NNW of Three Forks, Montana
  15. 2.3 Western 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 7,900 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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