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M 2.5ml

3 km W of Bear Dance, Montana

· 10 km deep · released about 170 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lake County 31 kmFlathead County 42 kmSanders County 84 kmMissoula County 100 kmMineral County 116 kmGlacier County 119 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 2.5 (ml)
Depth
10 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lake County, 31 km S
Nearest mapped fault
Mission fault, under 1 km from its surface trace — near is not the same as on
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2509 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 170 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 89,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 63,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 5.6× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.5 about 170 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 47.9174, -114.0784. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lake County, MT 31 km (19 mi) N of here earthquakes near Lake County
Flathead County, MT 42 km (26 mi) S of here earthquakes near Flathead County
Sanders County, MT 84 km (52 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Sanders County
Missoula County, MT 100 km (62 mi) N of here earthquakes near Missoula County
Mineral County, MT 116 km (72 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Glacier County, MT 119 km (74 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Glacier County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 16 km WSW of Kerr, Montana
  2. 2.3 10 km NNW of Swan Lake, Montana
  3. 1.7 15 km NNE of Bigfork, Montana
  4. 3.0 17 km SSE of Swan Lake, Montana
  5. 1.6 9 km ENE of Ronan, Montana
  6. 1.7 5 km ESE of Lakeside, Montana
  7. 1.5 8 km ESE of Woods Bay, Montana
  8. 2.1 18 km SSE of Swan Lake, Montana
  9. 1.6 3 km NNE of Somers, Montana
  10. 1.5 11 km ENE of Ronan, Montana
  11. 1.6 Western Montana
  12. 1.6 Western Montana
  13. 2.1 8 km NNW of Bigfork, Montana
  14. 1.9 21 km NNW of Condon, Montana
  15. 2.9 4 km N of Elmo, 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.

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