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M 3.0ml

64 km ESE of West Yellowstone, Montana

· 5.0 km deep · released about 950 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Teton County 38 kmPark County 64 kmFremont County 89 kmTeton County 96 kmPark County 120 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
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Teton County, 38 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1211 days ago

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

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 44.3930, -110.3911. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Teton County, WY 38 km (24 mi) N of here earthquakes near Teton County
Park County, WY 64 km (40 mi) W of here earthquakes near Park County
Fremont County, ID 89 km (55 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Fremont County
Teton County, ID 96 km (60 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Teton County
Park County, MT 120 km (74 mi) S of here earthquakes near Park County
Madison County, ID 121 km (75 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Madison County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 45 km ESE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  2. 1.9 44 km ESE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  3. 1.6 45 km ESE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  4. 1.6 64 km SSW of Silver Gate, Montana
  5. 1.9 64 km SSW of Silver Gate, Montana
  6. 1.7 45 km ESE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  7. 1.5 49 km ESE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  8. 2.0 45 km ESE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  9. 1.6 49 km ESE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  10. 1.9 46 km ESE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  11. 1.8 47 km ESE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  12. 1.7 46 km ESE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  13. 2.0 Wyoming
  14. 1.9 49 km ESE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  15. 1.5 47 km ESE of West Yellowstone, 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 4.2 on 2022-05-11 — it released about 68 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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