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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.0ml

12 km SSE of Soda Springs, Idaho

· 10 km deep · released about 950 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Caribou County 26 kmBear Lake County 35 kmFranklin County 48 kmBannock County 57 kmLincoln County 80 kmOneida County 89 kmCache County 92 kmBonneville County 94 kmBingham County 101 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 3.0 (ml)
Depth
10 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Caribou County, 26 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1511 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 950 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 16,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 11,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 950 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 42.5518, -111.5534. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Caribou County, ID 26 km (16 mi) S of here earthquakes near Caribou County
Bear Lake County, ID 35 km (22 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Bear Lake County
Franklin County, ID 48 km (30 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Franklin County
Bannock County, ID 57 km (36 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Bannock County
Lincoln County, WY 80 km (50 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Oneida County, ID 89 km (56 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Oneida County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 11 km ESE of Soda Springs, Idaho
  2. 2.3 19 km WSW of Fairview, Wyoming
  3. 2.4 8 km WSW of Smoot, Wyoming
  4. 2.7 12 km E of Soda Springs, Idaho
  5. 1.7 17 km WSW of Georgetown, Idaho
  6. 1.9 13 km ESE of Soda Springs, Idaho
  7. 2.0 13 km E of Soda Springs, Idaho
  8. 2.0 17 km E of Soda Springs, Idaho
  9. 2.2 12 km WSW of Georgetown, Idaho
  10. 2.0 3 km WNW of Georgetown, Idaho
  11. 1.6 12 km WSW of Georgetown, Idaho
  12. 1.7 3 km W of Georgetown, Idaho
  13. 1.9 15 km E of Soda Springs, Idaho
  14. 1.7 4 km SSE of Georgetown, Idaho
  15. 1.6 4 km SSE of Georgetown, 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 2,800 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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