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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

32 km W of Freedom, Idaho

· 8.7 km deep · released about 8.7 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Caribou County 28 kmBonneville County 44 kmBannock County 74 kmBingham County 81 kmBear Lake County 82 kmTeton County 84 kmMadison County 87 kmFranklin County 99 kmLincoln County 107 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
8.7 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Caribou County, 28 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 505 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 8.7 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 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 110× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 8.7 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 43.0205, -111.4363. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Caribou County, ID 28 km (17 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Caribou County
Bonneville County, ID 44 km (28 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Bonneville County
Bannock County, ID 74 km (46 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Bannock County
Bingham County, ID 81 km (50 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Bingham County
Bear Lake County, ID 82 km (51 mi) N of here earthquakes near Bear Lake County
Teton County, ID 84 km (52 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Teton County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 1 km E of Alpine Northeast, Wyoming
  2. 1.5 11 km E of Bancroft, Idaho
  3. 2.9 23 km WNW of Auburn, Wyoming
  4. 2.4 17 km WSW of Auburn, Wyoming
  5. 2.7 26 km NE of Soda Springs, Idaho
  6. 1.9 13 km WSW of Fairview, Wyoming
  7. 2.3 10 km SW of Auburn, Wyoming
  8. 2.5 18 km W of Fairview, Wyoming
  9. 3.6 13 km W of Fairview, Wyoming
  10. 1.8 19 km SW of Freedom, Idaho
  11. 2.2 11 km ESE of Soda Springs, Idaho
  12. 2.3 17 km W of Fairview, Wyoming
  13. 1.8 17 km WSW of Auburn, Wyoming
  14. 1.7 18 km WSW of Auburn, Wyoming
  15. 2.5 21 km E of Soda Springs, 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 5.3 on 2017-09-02 — it released about 310,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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