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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

12 km NE of Bondurant, Wyoming

· 6.0 km deep · released about 7.3 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Sublette County 63 kmTeton County 88 kmTeton County 93 kmBonneville County 109 kmCaribou County 115 kmLincoln County 120 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
6.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Sublette County, 63 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1763 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 7.3 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 2,100,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,500,000× 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 7.3 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 43.2642, -110.2843. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Sublette County, WY 63 km (39 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Sublette County
Teton County, WY 88 km (55 mi) S of here earthquakes near Teton County
Teton County, ID 93 km (58 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Teton County
Bonneville County, ID 109 km (68 mi) E of here earthquakes near Bonneville County
Caribou County, ID 115 km (72 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Caribou County
Lincoln County, WY 120 km (74 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Lincoln County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.5 23 km ESE of Kelly, Wyoming
  2. 1.6 18 km NE of Star Valley Ranch, Wyoming
  3. 1.5 18 km ENE of Star Valley Ranch, Wyoming
  4. 1.9 9 km E of Kelly, Wyoming
  5. 1.8 22 km E of Kelly, Wyoming
  6. 1.8 14 km SSE of Bondurant, Wyoming
  7. 1.6 8 km S of Hoback, Wyoming
  8. 1.9 5 km NNW of Hoback, Wyoming
  9. 1.7 5 km SE of Hoback, Wyoming
  10. 1.7 Wyoming
  11. 1.7 6 km NW of Bondurant, Wyoming
  12. 2.0 19 km ENE of Star Valley Ranch, Wyoming
  13. 2.8 18 km NE of Star Valley Ranch, Wyoming
  14. 2.3 4 km WNW of Bondurant, Wyoming
  15. 2.1 10 km WSW of Bondurant, 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 4.8 on 2016-08-27 — it released about 65,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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