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M 2.0ml

Wyoming

· 0.4 km deep · released about 27 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Teton County 34 kmTeton County 55 kmMadison County 69 kmBonneville County 70 kmFremont County 84 kmCaribou County 112 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (ml)
Depth
0.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Teton County, 34 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1770 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 27 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 5.8 560,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 390,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 35× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 27 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 43.6395, -110.8178. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Teton County, ID 34 km (21 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Teton County
Teton County, WY 55 km (34 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Teton County
Madison County, ID 69 km (43 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Madison County
Bonneville County, ID 70 km (44 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Bonneville County
Fremont County, ID 84 km (52 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Fremont County
Caribou County, ID 112 km (69 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

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

  1. 1.9 5 km WSW of Teton Village, Wyoming
  2. 1.6 10 km NE of Hoback, Wyoming
  3. 2.4 28 km ENE of Kelly, Wyoming
  4. 3.3 10 km W of Hoback, Wyoming
  5. 2.8 7 km WSW of Hoback, Wyoming
  6. 3.7 20 km ESE of Kelly, Wyoming
  7. 2.4 22 km ESE of Kelly, Wyoming
  8. 2.0 6 km N of Victor, Idaho
  9. 2.4 6 km W of Hoback, Wyoming
  10. 1.7 4 km ENE of Hoback, Wyoming
  11. 1.8 6 km ENE of Hoback, Wyoming
  12. 1.7 14 km E of Irwin, Idaho
  13. 1.5 2 km N of Rafter J Ranch, Wyoming
  14. 1.8 19 km E of Jackson, Wyoming
  15. 1.7 11 km ENE of Swan Valley, Idaho

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 1,100 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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