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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

12 km W of Hebgen Lake Estates, Montana

· 2.8 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Fremont County 64 kmMadison County 75 kmGallatin County 83 kmClark County 97 kmPark County 99 kmTeton County 110 kmMadison County 113 kmTeton County 114 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
2.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Fremont County, 64 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 20 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 11 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 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 89× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 44.7838, -111.3475. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Fremont County, ID 64 km (40 mi) N of here earthquakes near Fremont County
Madison County, MT 75 km (47 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Madison County
Gallatin County, MT 83 km (52 mi) S of here earthquakes near Gallatin County
Clark County, ID 97 km (60 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Clark County
Park County, MT 99 km (61 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Park County
Teton County, WY 110 km (68 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Teton County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 0.0 2 km ENE of Hebgen Lake Estates, Montana
  2. 0.3 7 km NE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  3. 0.2 8 km NE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  4. 0.1 6 km NNE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  5. -0.1 1 km SSE of Hebgen Lake Estates, Montana
  6. 1.2 5 km E of Hebgen Lake Estates, Montana
  7. 0.4 29 km WNW of Hebgen Lake Estates, Montana
  8. 0.4 5 km E of Hebgen Lake Estates, Montana
  9. 0.1 31 km WNW of Hebgen Lake Estates, Montana
  10. 0.3 24 km WNW of Hebgen Lake Estates, Montana
  11. 0.5 21 km ENE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  12. -0.2 4 km N of West Yellowstone, Montana
  13. 0.0 25 km WNW of Hebgen Lake Estates, Montana
  14. -0.2 5 km E of Hebgen Lake Estates, Montana
  15. -0.0 3 km SSE of Hebgen Lake Estates, 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 4.4 on 2017-06-16 — it released about 9,800 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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