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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.2ml

12 km ESE of Lincoln, Montana

· 11 km deep · released about 64 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lewis and Clark County 25 kmPowell County 32 kmGranite County 90 kmJefferson County 96 kmCascade County 99 kmTeton County 102 kmBroadwater County 102 kmDeer Lodge County 103 kmMissoula County 104 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 2.2 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lewis and Clark County, 25 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1063 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 64 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 230,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 170,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 15× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.2 about 64 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 46.9213, -112.5262. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lewis and Clark County, MT 25 km (15 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Lewis and Clark County
Powell County, MT 32 km (20 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Powell County
Granite County, MT 90 km (56 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Granite County
Jefferson County, MT 96 km (59 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Jefferson County
Cascade County, MT 99 km (62 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Cascade County
Teton County, MT 102 km (63 mi) S of here earthquakes near Teton County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 3 km SE of Helena Valley West Central, Montana
  2. 1.7 7 km SSE of Lincoln, Montana
  3. 2.3 10 km SSE of Marysville, Montana
  4. 2.1 15 km E of Lincoln, Montana
  5. 1.6 13 km ESE of Lincoln, Montana
  6. 1.6 19 km E of Lincoln, Montana
  7. 1.7 18 km ESE of Lincoln, Montana
  8. 1.8 17 km ENE of Drummond, Montana
  9. 2.3 16 km ENE of Drummond, Montana
  10. 1.6 14 km NNE of Marysville, Montana
  11. 2.0 5 km ESE of Marysville, Montana
  12. 1.7 13 km ESE of Lincoln, Montana
  13. 1.5 14 km ESE of Lincoln, Montana
  14. 1.5 14 km ESE of Lincoln, Montana
  15. 1.7 13 km ESE of Lincoln, 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 5.8 on 2017-07-06 — it released about 230,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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