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mining explosion · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.8ml

5 km W of Diamondville, Wyoming

· 0.0 km deep · released about 15 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lincoln County 50 kmUinta County 56 kmRich County 56 kmBear Lake County 82 kmCache County 95 kmSummit County 106 kmFranklin County 110 kmMorgan County 112 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
0.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lincoln County, 50 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3175 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

USGS catalogues this as mining explosion, not an earthquake.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 15 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 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 710,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 63× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 15 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 41.7866, -110.5993. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lincoln County, WY 50 km (31 mi) S of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Uinta County, WY 56 km (35 mi) N of here earthquakes near Uinta County
Rich County, UT 56 km (35 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Rich County
Bear Lake County, ID 82 km (51 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Bear Lake County
Cache County, UT 95 km (59 mi) E of here earthquakes near Cache County
Summit County, UT 106 km (66 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Summit County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 19 km NE of Bear River, Wyoming
  2. 1.7 14 km SW of La Barge, Wyoming
  3. 2.8 10 km N of Bear River, Wyoming
  4. 1.6 14 km SW of Calpet, Wyoming
  5. 2.1 1 km WSW of Diamondville, Wyoming
  6. 2.6 18 km W of Fontenelle, Wyoming
  7. 1.9 10 km W of Diamondville, Wyoming
  8. 1.6 19 km SSW of Calpet, Wyoming
  9. 1.6 17 km W of Kemmerer, Wyoming
  10. 2.6 20 km NE of Randolph, Utah
  11. 2.1 10 km ESE of Randolph, Utah
  12. 2.7 15 km W of Diamondville, Wyoming
  13. 2.4 10 km SW of Oakley, Wyoming

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.

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