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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.8ml

14 km NNE of Twin Bridges, Montana

· 5.0 km deep · released about 16 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Silver Bow County 41 kmMadison County 46 kmJefferson County 53 kmBeaverhead County 78 kmDeer Lodge County 84 kmGallatin County 86 kmBroadwater County 94 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 1.8 (ml)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Silver Bow County, 41 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 111 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 16 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 970,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 680,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 61× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 16 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 45.6650, -112.2452. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Silver Bow County, MT 41 km (26 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Silver Bow County
Madison County, MT 46 km (28 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Madison County
Jefferson County, MT 53 km (33 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Jefferson County
Beaverhead County, MT 78 km (48 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Beaverhead County
Deer Lodge County, MT 84 km (52 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Deer Lodge County
Gallatin County, MT 86 km (53 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Gallatin County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 5 km E of Butte, Montana
  2. 1.8 5 km ESE of Walkerville, Montana
  3. 2.1 12 km NW of Ennis, Montana
  4. 1.5 13 km NNW of Ennis, Montana
  5. 1.8 5 km E of Butte, Montana
  6. 2.0 2 km NNW of Pony, Montana
  7. 1.8 6 km E of Walkerville, Montana
  8. 1.5 4 km E of Butte, Montana
  9. 1.9 5 km E of Butte, Montana
  10. 1.6 5 km E of Butte, Montana
  11. 2.3 14 km NNE of Twin Bridges, Montana
  12. 2.9 14 km NNE of Twin Bridges, Montana

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 2016-09-03 — it released about 2,100 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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