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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

14 km ESE of Kelly, Wyoming

· 2.3 km deep · released about 12 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Teton County 51 kmTeton County 64 kmBonneville County 97 kmMadison County 100 kmSublette County 101 kmFremont County 109 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
2.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Teton County, 51 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 541 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 12 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 1,300,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 900,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 80× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 12 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 43.5860, -110.4493. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Teton County, WY 51 km (32 mi) S of here earthquakes near Teton County
Teton County, ID 64 km (40 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Teton County
Bonneville County, ID 97 km (60 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Bonneville County
Madison County, ID 100 km (62 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Madison County
Sublette County, WY 101 km (63 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Sublette County
Fremont County, ID 109 km (68 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Fremont County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 6 km N of Jackson, Wyoming
  2. 2.1 5 km NNW of Jackson, Wyoming
  3. 2.3 5 km NNE of Jackson, Wyoming
  4. 2.3 4 km E of Moose Wilson Road, Wyoming
  5. 2.6 5 km NNW of Jackson, Wyoming
  6. 2.2 23 km ESE of Jackson, Wyoming
  7. 2.3 22 km ESE of Jackson, Wyoming
  8. 2.2 25 km SE of Kelly, Wyoming
  9. 1.6 22 km SE of Kelly, Wyoming
  10. 2.1 23 km ESE of Jackson, Wyoming
  11. 2.0 23 km ESE of Jackson, Wyoming
  12. 1.8 27 km NNE of Bondurant, Wyoming
  13. 2.0 3 km NE of Hoback, Wyoming
  14. 3.1 26 km ESE of Kelly, Wyoming
  15. 1.9 9 km E of Kelly, 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 40,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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