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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0ml

8 km ESE of Alpine Northeast, Wyoming

· 6.4 km deep · released about 26 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Bonneville County 63 kmCaribou County 68 kmTeton County 69 kmMadison County 91 kmSublette County 93 kmTeton County 104 kmBear Lake County 105 kmLincoln County 107 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (ml)
Depth
6.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Bonneville County, 63 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1570 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 26 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 5.8 580,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 410,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 36× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 26 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 43.1792, -110.9082. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Bonneville County, ID 63 km (39 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Bonneville County
Caribou County, ID 68 km (42 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Caribou County
Teton County, ID 69 km (43 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Teton County
Madison County, ID 91 km (56 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Madison County
Sublette County, WY 93 km (58 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Sublette County
Teton County, WY 104 km (65 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Teton County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 8 km S of Hoback, Wyoming
  2. 1.9 5 km NNW of Hoback, Wyoming
  3. 1.7 5 km SE of Hoback, Wyoming
  4. 1.7 Wyoming
  5. 1.7 6 km NW of Bondurant, Wyoming
  6. 2.0 19 km ENE of Star Valley Ranch, Wyoming
  7. 2.8 18 km NE of Star Valley Ranch, Wyoming
  8. 1.7 Wyoming
  9. 2.3 5 km S of Alpine, Wyoming
  10. 2.3 4 km WNW of Bondurant, Wyoming
  11. 2.1 10 km WSW of Bondurant, Wyoming
  12. 1.6 Wyoming
  13. 1.8 4 km W of Rafter J Ranch, Wyoming
  14. 1.8 2 km NNE of Freedom, Idaho
  15. 1.6 8 km S of Victor, 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 4.8 on 2016-08-27 — it released about 18,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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