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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.1ml

15 km NNW of Stanley, Idaho

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

10 km30 km60 km120 km N Custer County 59 kmBoise County 71 kmValley County 75 kmCamas County 96 kmLemhi County 108 kmElmore County 114 kmGem County 117 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
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity I
Nearest
Custer County, 59 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2794 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 1 person has 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 44.3532, -114.9831. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Custer County, ID 59 km (37 mi) W of here earthquakes near Custer County
Boise County, ID 71 km (44 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Boise County
Valley County, ID 75 km (47 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Valley County
Camas County, ID 96 km (60 mi) N of here earthquakes near Camas County
Lemhi County, ID 108 km (67 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Lemhi County
Elmore County, ID 114 km (71 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Elmore County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.4 22 km WNW of Stanley, Idaho
  2. 3.3 32 km NW of Stanley, Idaho
  3. 3.1 14 km NW of Stanley, Idaho
  4. 3.4 27 km NW of Stanley, Idaho
  5. 3.1 24 km NW of Stanley, Idaho
  6. 3.6 22 km NW of Stanley, Idaho
  7. 2.6 33 km NW of Stanley, Idaho
  8. 2.5 18 km NW of Stanley, Idaho
  9. 2.7 25 km NW of Stanley, Idaho
  10. 3.3 23 km NW of Stanley, Idaho
  11. 3.3 23 km NW of Stanley, Idaho
  12. 3.3 23 km WNW of Stanley, Idaho
  13. 2.6 26 km NW of Stanley, Idaho
  14. 4.0 18 km NW of Stanley, Idaho
  15. 3.6 21 km NW of Stanley, 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.

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