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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

34 km N of Kelly, Wyoming

· 7.6 km deep · released about 7.3 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Teton County 17 kmTeton County 55 kmFremont County 80 kmMadison County 89 kmPark County 99 kmBonneville 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 1.6 (ml)
Depth
7.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Teton County, 17 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 415 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 43.9292, -110.5618. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Teton County, WY 17 km (11 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Teton County
Teton County, ID 55 km (34 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Teton County
Fremont County, ID 80 km (50 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Fremont County
Madison County, ID 89 km (55 mi) E of here earthquakes near Madison County
Park County, WY 99 km (62 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Park County
Bonneville County, ID 104 km (65 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Bonneville County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.7 57 km NE of Kelly, Wyoming
  2. 3.4 57 km NE of Kelly, Wyoming
  3. 2.2 6 km N of Jackson, Wyoming
  4. 2.1 5 km NNW of Jackson, Wyoming
  5. 2.3 5 km NNE of Jackson, Wyoming
  6. 2.3 4 km E of Moose Wilson Road, Wyoming
  7. 2.6 5 km NNW of Jackson, Wyoming
  8. 1.9 43 km ENE of Warm River, Idaho
  9. 2.0 51 km NNE of Kelly, Wyoming
  10. 1.6 51 km NNE of Kelly, Wyoming
  11. 2.1 46 km ENE of Warm River, Idaho
  12. 1.8 63 km NNE of Kelly, Wyoming
  13. 1.6 44 km ENE of Warm River, Idaho
  14. 3.1 26 km ESE of Kelly, Wyoming
  15. 2.0 45 km ENE of Warm River, 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 4.0 on 2016-02-26 — it released about 4,100 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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