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M 1.6ml

2 km N of Elk River, Idaho

· 8.5 km deep · released about 7.3 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Latah County 42 kmClearwater County 42 kmBenewah County 57 kmShoshone County 64 kmLewis County 66 kmNez Perce County 69 kmMineral County 90 kmWhitman County 104 kmKootenai County 104 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
8.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Latah County, 42 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 705 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 7.3 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,100,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,500,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.3 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 46.8078, -116.1745. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Latah County, ID 42 km (26 mi) E of here earthquakes near Latah County
Clearwater County, ID 42 km (26 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Clearwater County
Benewah County, ID 57 km (36 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Benewah County
Shoshone County, ID 64 km (40 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Shoshone County
Lewis County, ID 66 km (41 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Lewis County
Nez Perce County, ID 69 km (43 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Nez Perce County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 9 km ESE of Princeton, Idaho
  2. 1.9 7 km WSW of Deary, Idaho
  3. 1.9 7 km ENE of Troy, Idaho
  4. 2.1 7 km SSW of Orofino, Idaho

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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