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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

Wyoming

· 5.1 km deep · released about 9.6 lb of TNT

10 km30 km60 km120 km N Bonneville County 67 kmCaribou County 68 kmTeton County 73 kmSublette County 89 kmMadison County 95 kmBear Lake County 103 kmLincoln County 104 kmTeton County 106 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
5.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Bonneville County, 67 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1067 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 9.6 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 1,600,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,100,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 99× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 9.6 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 43.1527, -110.8702. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Bonneville County, ID 67 km (41 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 73 km (45 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Teton County
Sublette County, WY 89 km (55 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Sublette County
Madison County, ID 95 km (59 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Madison County
Bear Lake County, ID 103 km (64 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Bear Lake County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.0 7 km W of Thayne, Wyoming
  2. 2.3 4 km WSW of Thayne, Wyoming
  3. 2.7 7 km SW of Freedom, Idaho
  4. 2.2 6 km W of Thayne, Wyoming
  5. 2.0 5 km WNW of Rafter J Ranch, Wyoming
  6. 1.7 5 km NE of Hoback, Wyoming
  7. 1.5 6 km NE of Hoback, Wyoming
  8. 2.4 6 km ENE of Moose Wilson Road, Wyoming
  9. 2.0 4 km NNE of Alpine Northeast, Wyoming
  10. 1.7 6 km NNW of Hoback, Wyoming
  11. 1.9 4 km E of Hoback, Wyoming
  12. 1.5 6 km ENE of Hoback, Wyoming
  13. 1.9 6 km NE of Hoback, Wyoming
  14. 2.3 17 km NE of Star Valley Ranch, Wyoming
  15. 2.8 15 km NE of Star Valley Ranch, 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 50,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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