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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 0.9ml

9 km WSW of Condon, Montana

· 15 km deep · released about 0.65 lb of TNT

10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lake County 25 kmMissoula County 53 kmFlathead County 90 kmPowell County 99 kmMineral County 103 kmSanders County 106 kmLewis and Clark County 116 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 0.9 (ml)
Depth
15 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lake County, 25 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3 hours 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 0.65 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 1.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 23,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 16,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1,500× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 0.9 about 0.65 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 47.4977, -113.8252. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lake County, MT 25 km (16 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Lake County
Missoula County, MT 53 km (33 mi) N of here earthquakes near Missoula County
Flathead County, MT 90 km (56 mi) S of here earthquakes near Flathead County
Powell County, MT 99 km (62 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Powell County
Mineral County, MT 103 km (64 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Sanders County, MT 106 km (66 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Sanders County

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

Aftershocks so far

No further earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.

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.

On USGS

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