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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.1ml

5 km W of Fairview, Wyoming

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

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Caribou County 43 kmBear Lake County 50 kmLincoln County 58 kmFranklin County 85 kmBonneville County 92 kmSublette County 93 kmBannock County 97 kmRich County 118 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
9 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Caribou County, 43 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2787 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 9 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 42.6811, -111.0437. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Caribou County, ID 43 km (26 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Caribou County
Bear Lake County, ID 50 km (31 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Bear Lake County
Lincoln County, WY 58 km (36 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Franklin County, ID 85 km (53 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Franklin County
Bonneville County, ID 92 km (57 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Bonneville County
Sublette County, WY 93 km (58 mi) W of here earthquakes near Sublette County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 10 km E of Soda Springs, Idaho
  2. 1.8 11 km E of Soda Springs, Idaho
  3. 2.1 10 km E of Soda Springs, Idaho
  4. 1.6 10 km E of Soda Springs, Idaho
  5. 1.6 4 km NW of Georgetown, Idaho
  6. 1.6 14 km N of Georgetown, Idaho
  7. 1.5 7 km W of Fairview, Wyoming
  8. 2.0 13 km E of Soda Springs, Idaho
  9. 1.8 11 km E of Soda Springs, Idaho
  10. 1.5 11 km E of Soda Springs, Idaho
  11. 1.6 12 km E of Soda Springs, Idaho
  12. 2.1 10 km E of Soda Springs, Idaho
  13. 2.0 8 km ENE of Soda Springs, Idaho
  14. 2.2 10 km E of Soda Springs, Idaho
  15. 1.6 11 km E of Soda Springs, 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 5.3 on 2017-09-02 — it released about 2,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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