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mining explosion · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.2ml

29 km SE of Wright, Wyoming

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

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Weston County 65 kmConverse County 66 kmCampbell County 75 kmNiobrara County 84 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
Weston County, 65 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1018 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 43.5422, -105.2620. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Weston County, WY 65 km (40 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Weston County
Converse County, WY 66 km (41 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Converse County
Campbell County, WY 75 km (47 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Campbell County
Niobrara County, WY 84 km (52 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Niobrara County
Johnson County, WY 120 km (75 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Johnson County
Crook County, WY 129 km (80 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Crook 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 12 km SE of Wright, Wyoming
  2. 3.1 13 km ENE of Wright, Wyoming
  3. 3.7 12 km E of Wright, Wyoming
  4. 2.6 12 km NE of Wright, Wyoming
  5. 3.5 12 km SE of Wright, Wyoming
  6. 2.5 16 km SE of Wright, Wyoming
  7. 2.9 15 km SE of Wright, Wyoming
  8. 3.2 13 km NE of Wright, Wyoming
  9. 2.4 28 km SE of Wright, Wyoming
  10. 3.2 24 km ESE of Wright, Wyoming
  11. 3.5 12 km E of Wright, Wyoming
  12. 3.1 23 km SE of Wright, Wyoming
  13. 2.9 10 km E of Wright, Wyoming
  14. 3.5 38 km SE of Wright, Wyoming
  15. 3.2 17 km NE 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 22 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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