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M 2.0ml

1 km ENE of Columbia Falls, Montana

· 9.2 km deep · released about 36 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Flathead County 12 kmLake County 82 kmGlacier County 93 kmLincoln County 98 kmSanders County 103 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 2.0 (ml)
Depth
9.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Flathead County, 12 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1165 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 36 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 5.8 420,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 300,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 27× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 36 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 48.3760, -114.1582. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Flathead County, MT 12 km (7 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Flathead County
Lake County, MT 82 km (51 mi) N of here earthquakes near Lake County
Glacier County, MT 93 km (58 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Glacier County
Lincoln County, MT 98 km (61 mi) E of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Sanders County, MT 103 km (64 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Sanders County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 5 km SSW of West Glacier, Montana
  2. 1.8 12 km NE of Forest Hill Village, Montana
  3. 1.9 12 km ESE of Evergreen, Montana
  4. 1.6 6 km SW of Woods Bay, Montana
  5. 1.7 1 km S of Woods Bay, Montana
  6. 2.1 6 km SW of Woods Bay, Montana
  7. 1.6 6 km SW of Woods Bay, Montana
  8. 1.7 30 km ESE of Martin City, Montana
  9. 2.3 6 km NNE of Olney, Montana
  10. 2.3 10 km NNW of Swan Lake, Montana
  11. 1.7 15 km NNE of Bigfork, Montana
  12. 1.7 5 km ESE of Lakeside, Montana
  13. 1.5 8 km ESE of Woods Bay, Montana
  14. 1.6 3 km NNE of Somers, 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.

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