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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

42 km NNE of Spencer, Idaho

· 13 km deep · released about 12 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Clark County 56 kmFremont County 62 kmMadison County 71 kmBeaverhead County 92 kmMadison County 102 kmJefferson County 104 kmGallatin County 110 kmTeton County 117 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 1.7 (ml)
Depth
13 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Clark County, 56 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1524 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 12 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 870,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 78× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 12 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 44.6862, -111.9167. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Clark County, ID 56 km (35 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Clark County
Fremont County, ID 62 km (39 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Fremont County
Madison County, MT 71 km (44 mi) S of here earthquakes near Madison County
Beaverhead County, MT 92 km (57 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Beaverhead County
Madison County, ID 102 km (63 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Madison County
Jefferson County, ID 104 km (65 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Jefferson County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 33 km S of Virginia City, Montana
  2. 1.5 28 km SE of Virginia City, Montana
  3. 1.5 28 km S of Ennis, Montana
  4. 2.6 43 km WNW of Hebgen Lake Estates, Montana
  5. 1.9 43 km W of Hebgen Lake Estates, Montana
  6. 2.0 22 km NE of Lima, Montana
  7. 2.3 22 km NE of Lima, Montana
  8. 1.7 18 km WNW of Hebgen Lake Estates, Montana
  9. 2.3 18 km NW of Hebgen Lake Estates, Montana
  10. 2.0 26 km W of Hebgen Lake Estates, Montana
  11. 1.5 29 km SE of Virginia City, Montana
  12. 1.6 41 km NE of Spencer, Idaho
  13. 1.6 28 km S of Ennis, Montana
  14. 1.6 34 km S of Virginia City, Montana
  15. 2.3 34 km S of Virginia City, 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 4.3 on 2016-06-13 — 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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