27 km ENE of Lovell, Wyoming

2016-01-06 08:39 UTC · 12 km deep · released about 240 lb of TNT

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: 2016-01-06 08:39 UTC
Magnitude: M 2.6 (ml)
Depth: 12 km below the surface
Felt: no reports yet
Nearest: Big Horn County, 49 km S
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS 3835 days ago · we first saw it 3835 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 240 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 63,000× the energy of this one
Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 45,000× the energy of this one
Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4× the energy of this one
This earthquake M 2.6 about 240 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

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Epicentre 44.9599, -108.0859. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

Place	Distance	Direction
Big Horn County, WY	49 km (30 mi)	N of here	earthquakes near Big Horn County
Big Horn County, MT	67 km (42 mi)	SW of here	earthquakes near Big Horn County
Carbon County, MT	80 km (49 mi)	ESE of here	earthquakes near Carbon County
Sheridan County, WY	97 km (60 mi)	WNW of here	earthquakes near Sheridan County
Yellowstone County, MT	110 km (68 mi)	S of here	earthquakes near Yellowstone County
Stillwater County, MT	128 km (79 mi)	SE of here	earthquakes near Stillwater County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

2.0 17 km WNW of Wyola, Montana 06:36 UTC
2.4 20 km W of Parkman, Wyoming 04:42 UTC
2.2 17 km N of Frannie, Wyoming 21:52 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 12:59 UTC. 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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