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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.1ml

17 km NNE of Ennis, Montana

· 0.0 km deep · released about 43 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Madison County 27 kmGallatin County 40 kmJefferson County 76 kmSilver Bow County 88 kmPark County 89 kmBroadwater County 93 kmBeaverhead 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 2.1 (ml)
Depth
0.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Madison County, 27 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 983 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 43 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 350,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 250,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 22× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 43 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 45.4990, -111.6792. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Madison County, MT 27 km (17 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Madison County
Gallatin County, MT 40 km (25 mi) W of here earthquakes near Gallatin County
Jefferson County, MT 76 km (47 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Jefferson County
Silver Bow County, MT 88 km (55 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Silver Bow County
Park County, MT 89 km (55 mi) W of here earthquakes near Park County
Broadwater County, MT 93 km (58 mi) S of here earthquakes near Broadwater 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. 2.1 13 km SSE of Pony, Montana
  2. 1.9 21 km S of Ennis, Montana
  3. 1.6 28 km SE of Virginia City, Montana
  4. 1.8 6 km NE of Three Forks, Montana
  5. 2.0 11 km S of Ennis, Montana
  6. 1.5 28 km S of Ennis, Montana
  7. 2.3 3 km NNW of Pony, Montana
  8. 2.0 2 km NNW of Pony, Montana
  9. 1.6 29 km SSE of Virginia City, Montana
  10. 2.4 8 km SSE of Pony, Montana
  11. 1.5 28 km SE of Virginia City, Montana
  12. 1.5 28 km S of Ennis, Montana
  13. 2.0 4 km ESE of Three Forks, Montana
  14. 2.4 7 km NW of Willow Creek, Montana
  15. 2.0 7 km SE of Pony, 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 4.2 on 2019-08-16 — it released about 1,400 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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