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M 1.7ml

12 km NNE of Challis, Idaho

· 5.7 km deep · released about 12 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Custer County 37 kmLemhi County 42 kmBeaverhead County 117 kmValley County 117 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
5.7 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Custer County, 37 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 397 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 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 870,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 78× 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 44.6050, -114.1733. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Custer County, ID 37 km (23 mi) N of here earthquakes near Custer County
Lemhi County, ID 42 km (26 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Lemhi County
Beaverhead County, MT 117 km (73 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Beaverhead County
Valley County, ID 117 km (73 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Valley County
Butte County, ID 130 km (80 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Butte County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 25 km SSE of Challis, Idaho
  2. 2.0 8 km SSW of Challis, Idaho
  3. 1.6 52 km NNW of Challis, Idaho
  4. 2.3 7 km E of Challis, Idaho
  5. 2.6 4 km NW of Challis, Idaho
  6. 2.4 2 km NW of Challis, Idaho
  7. 1.7 14 km NNE of Challis, Idaho
  8. 2.3 19 km NNE of Challis, Idaho
  9. 2.1 14 km W of Clayton, Idaho
  10. 1.7 2 km NE of Clayton, Idaho
  11. 1.8 9 km NW of Clayton, Idaho
  12. 2.3 33 km NNW of Challis, Idaho
  13. 1.7 32 km NNW of Challis, Idaho
  14. 1.6 32 km NNW of Challis, Idaho
  15. 2.3 26 km E of Clayton, 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 4.3 on 2025-06-08 — it released about 6,900 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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