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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.5ml

19 km NW of Lincoln, Montana

· 12 km deep · released about 170 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Powell County 24 kmLewis and Clark County 39 kmMissoula County 76 kmGranite County 84 kmTeton County 96 kmDeer Lodge County 109 kmLake County 111 kmCascade 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 2.5 (ml)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Powell County, 24 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2412 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 47.0560, -112.8859. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Powell County, MT 24 km (15 mi) N of here earthquakes near Powell County
Lewis and Clark County, MT 39 km (24 mi) W of here earthquakes near Lewis and Clark County
Missoula County, MT 76 km (47 mi) E of here earthquakes near Missoula County
Granite County, MT 84 km (52 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Granite County
Teton County, MT 96 km (60 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Teton County
Deer Lodge County, MT 109 km (68 mi) N of here earthquakes near Deer Lodge County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.8 6 km WNW of Lincoln, Montana
  2. 2.4 14 km ESE of Lincoln, Montana
  3. 2.3 Western Montana
  4. 2.0 15 km SE of Lincoln, Montana
  5. 1.7 14 km ESE of Lincoln, Montana
  6. 1.8 13 km ESE of Lincoln, Montana
  7. 2.1 15 km SE of Lincoln, Montana
  8. 1.7 14 km ESE of Lincoln, Montana
  9. 1.8 11 km W of Lincoln, Montana
  10. 1.6 14 km SE of Lincoln, Montana
  11. 2.3 13 km WNW of Lincoln, Montana
  12. 2.0 15 km SE of Lincoln, Montana
  13. 1.5 15 km SE of Lincoln, Montana
  14. 1.6 12 km ESE of Lincoln, Montana
  15. 2.0 14 km SE of Lincoln, 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 5.8 on 2017-07-06 — it released about 89,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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