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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.3ml

18 km WNW of Pony, Montana

· 5.0 km deep · released about 85 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Madison County 45 kmSilver Bow County 47 kmJefferson County 48 kmGallatin County 78 kmBroadwater County 86 kmBeaverhead County 86 kmDeer Lodge County 90 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 2.3 (ml)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Madison County, 45 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2164 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 85 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 130,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 11× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 85 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 45.6959, -112.1319. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Madison County, MT 45 km (28 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Madison County
Silver Bow County, MT 47 km (29 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Silver Bow County
Jefferson County, MT 48 km (30 mi) S of here earthquakes near Jefferson County
Gallatin County, MT 78 km (48 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Gallatin County
Broadwater County, MT 86 km (53 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Broadwater County
Beaverhead County, MT 86 km (54 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Beaverhead 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. 1.9 4 km E of Butte, Montana
  2. 1.9 6 km ENE of Butte, Montana
  3. 1.6 6 km ENE of Butte, Montana
  4. 1.7 6 km E of Butte, Montana
  5. 1.6 4 km E of Butte, Montana
  6. 1.6 5 km E of Butte, Montana
  7. 1.5 5 km ENE of Butte, Montana
  8. 1.8 6 km E of Butte, Montana
  9. 1.9 5 km ENE of Butte, Montana
  10. 1.8 4 km E of Butte, Montana
  11. 1.9 6 km ENE of Butte, Montana
  12. 1.7 5 km ENE of Butte, Montana
  13. 1.8 4 km E of Butte, Montana
  14. 1.7 5 km E of Butte, Montana
  15. 1.8 6 km ENE of Butte, Montana

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 2016-09-03 — it released about 390 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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