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mining explosion · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.0ml

8 km SW of Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming

· 0.0 km deep · released about 950 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Campbell County 3 kmJohnson County 85 kmWeston County 85 kmCrook 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 3.0 (ml)
Depth
0.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Campbell County, 3 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1161 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 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 44.1649, -105.5387. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Campbell County, WY 3 km (2 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Campbell County
Johnson County, WY 85 km (53 mi) E of here earthquakes near Johnson County
Weston County, WY 85 km (53 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Weston County
Crook County, WY 90 km (56 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Crook County
Sheridan County, WY 127 km (79 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Sheridan County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.3 14 km E of Wright, Wyoming
  2. 2.6 8 km S of Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming
  3. 2.9 7 km N of Gillette, Wyoming
  4. 3.0 22 km NNW of Wright, Wyoming
  5. 2.4 30 km ENE of Wright, Wyoming
  6. 3.0 2 km S of Gillette, Wyoming
  7. 2.8 16 km SSE of Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming
  8. 3.3 13 km ENE of Wright, Wyoming
  9. 3.6 14 km ENE of Wright, Wyoming
  10. 3.3 19 km ENE of Wright, Wyoming
  11. 3.4 2 km NNE of Wright, Wyoming
  12. 3.4 16 km ENE of Wright, Wyoming
  13. 2.9 3 km SSE of Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming
  14. 2.8 10 km NW of Wright, Wyoming
  15. 3.6 18 km ENE of Wright, 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 4.1 on 2023-01-23 — it released about 45 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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