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M 4.8mwr

4 km ENE of Bondurant, Wyoming

· 12 km deep · released about 240 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Sublette County 62 kmTeton County 91 kmTeton County 92 kmBonneville County 104 kmCaribou County 108 kmLincoln County 113 km
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When
Magnitude
M 4.8 (mwr)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
578 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Measured shaking
intensity V (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
green
Nearest
Sublette County, 62 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1608 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon. 578 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 240 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 710× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 32× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 22× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.8 about 240 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 500× 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 43.2226, -110.3593. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Sublette County, WY 62 km (39 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Sublette County
Teton County, ID 91 km (57 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Teton County
Teton County, WY 92 km (57 mi) S of here earthquakes near Teton County
Bonneville County, ID 104 km (65 mi) E of here earthquakes near Bonneville County
Caribou County, ID 108 km (67 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Caribou County
Lincoln County, WY 113 km (71 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Lincoln 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 15 km ENE of Bondurant, Wyoming
  2. 2.0 9 km E of Kelly, Wyoming
  3. 1.6 37 km NNE of Bondurant, Wyoming
  4. 1.6 26 km NNE of Bondurant, Wyoming
  5. 1.7 11 km E of Kelly, Wyoming
  6. 1.8 Wyoming
  7. 1.9 17 km E of Jackson, Wyoming
  8. 1.7 16 km ESE of Kelly, Wyoming
  9. 1.6 8 km ESE of South Park, Wyoming
  10. 1.9 14 km ESE of Kelly, Wyoming
  11. 1.6 11 km SW of Rafter J Ranch, Wyoming
  12. 1.9 16 km ENE of Bondurant, Wyoming
  13. 1.6 7 km E of Kelly, Wyoming
  14. 1.7 8 km SSW of Hoback, Wyoming
  15. 3.5 14 km ESE of Alpine, 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.0 on 2016-02-26.

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

On USGS

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