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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.1ml

11 km WNW of Hoback, Wyoming

· 1.1 km deep · released about 1,300 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Teton County 53 kmBonneville County 58 kmMadison County 79 kmCaribou County 79 kmTeton County 89 kmSublette County 102 kmFremont County 109 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 3.1 (ml)
Depth
1.1 km below the surface
Felt
25 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Teton County, 53 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2887 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 25 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,300 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 250,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 11,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 7,900× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.1 about 1,300 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.4× more

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 43.3309, -110.9146. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Teton County, ID 53 km (33 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Teton County
Bonneville County, ID 58 km (36 mi) E of here earthquakes near Bonneville County
Madison County, ID 79 km (49 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Madison County
Caribou County, ID 79 km (49 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Caribou County
Teton County, WY 89 km (55 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Teton County
Sublette County, WY 102 km (64 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Sublette County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 14 km E of Kelly, Wyoming
  2. 1.7 11 km ESE of Alpine, Wyoming
  3. 2.0 19 km N of Alpine Northeast, Wyoming
  4. 1.9 14 km SW of Wilson, Wyoming
  5. 1.6 12 km SW of Wilson, Wyoming
  6. 1.5 6 km ESE of Victor, Idaho
  7. 2.0 southern Idaho
  8. 2.0 11 km NE of Hoback, Wyoming
  9. 1.5 1 km SW of Driggs, Idaho
  10. 1.9 6 km WSW of Rafter J Ranch, Wyoming
  11. 2.1 9 km W of Hoback, Wyoming
  12. 1.8 2 km S of Alta, Wyoming
  13. 1.9 southern Idaho
  14. 1.6 1 km S of Driggs, Idaho
  15. 1.5 2 km S of Driggs, Idaho

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 2016-02-26 — it released about 22 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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