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mining explosion · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.2ml

12 km NNE of Wright, Wyoming

· 0.0 km deep · released about 1,900 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Campbell County 39 kmWeston County 67 kmConverse County 97 kmJohnson County 97 kmCrook County 106 kmNiobrara County 116 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 3.2 (ml)
Depth
0.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Campbell County, 39 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1307 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

USGS catalogues this as mining explosion, not an earthquake.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,900 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 7,900× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 5,600× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1,900 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2× 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 43.8491, -105.4089. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Campbell County, WY 39 km (24 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Campbell County
Weston County, WY 67 km (42 mi) W of here earthquakes near Weston County
Converse County, WY 97 km (60 mi) N of here earthquakes near Converse County
Johnson County, WY 97 km (60 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Johnson County
Crook County, WY 106 km (66 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Crook County
Niobrara County, WY 116 km (72 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Niobrara County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.0 15 km ENE of Wright, Wyoming
  2. 3.2 19 km SE of Wright, Wyoming
  3. 3.5 14 km E of Wright, Wyoming
  4. 3.2 22 km E of Wright, Wyoming
  5. 3.4 16 km ENE of Wright, Wyoming
  6. 3.2 15 km E of Wright, Wyoming
  7. 3.0 Wyoming
  8. 2.5 20 km SSE of Wright, Wyoming
  9. 2.9 26 km NNE of Wright, Wyoming
  10. 2.6 12 km E of Wright, Wyoming
  11. 3.0 23 km SE of Wright, Wyoming
  12. 3.4 Wyoming
  13. 3.1 22 km ENE of Wright, Wyoming
  14. 3.2 19 km SE of Wright, Wyoming
  15. 3.4 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 2021-07-20 — it released about 16 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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