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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

2 km ENE of Clayton, Idaho

· 6.4 km deep · released about 6.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Custer County 10 kmLemhi County 83 kmCamas County 91 kmBlaine County 103 kmBoise County 111 kmButte County 116 kmValley County 118 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
6.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Custer County, 10 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 379 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 6.6 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 2,300,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,600,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 140× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 6.6 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 44.2675, -114.3750. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Custer County, ID 10 km (6 mi) W of here earthquakes near Custer County
Lemhi County, ID 83 km (52 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Lemhi County
Camas County, ID 91 km (56 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Camas County
Blaine County, ID 103 km (64 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Blaine County
Boise County, ID 111 km (69 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Boise County
Butte County, ID 116 km (72 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

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

  1. 2.9 4 km NNE of Stanley, Idaho
  2. 1.7 25 km SSE of Challis, Idaho
  3. 2.0 8 km SSW 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. 2.6 26 km S of Clayton, Idaho
  8. 1.7 14 km NNE of Challis, Idaho
  9. 2.1 21 km ESE of Stanley, Idaho
  10. 2.4 29 km S of Clayton, Idaho
  11. 2.3 19 km NNE of Challis, Idaho
  12. 2.1 14 km W of Clayton, Idaho
  13. 1.7 2 km NE of Clayton, Idaho
  14. 1.8 9 km NW of Clayton, Idaho
  15. 2.4 17 km NE of Stanley, 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 13,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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