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M 3.0ml

28 km WSW of Saratoga, Wyoming

· 5.0 km deep · released about 950 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Carbon County 39 kmRoutt County 101 kmJackson County 104 km
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When
Magnitude
M 3.0 (ml)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity I
Nearest
Carbon County, 39 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2345 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

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 41.3833, -107.1282. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Carbon County, WY 39 km (24 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Carbon County
Routt County, CO 101 km (63 mi) N of here earthquakes near Routt County
Jackson County, CO 104 km (65 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Jackson County
Albany County, WY 121 km (75 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Albany County
Moffat County, CO 125 km (78 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Moffat County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.4 9 km SSE of Saratoga, Wyoming
  2. 3.3 8 km SSE of Saratoga, Wyoming
  3. 3.6 9 km SSE of Saratoga, Wyoming
  4. 2.5 3 km NE of Saratoga, Wyoming
  5. 2.8 20 km WNW of Encampment, Wyoming
  6. 2.7 3 km WSW of Saratoga, Wyoming
  7. 3.3 8 km ESE of Saratoga, Wyoming
  8. 2.9 28 km ENE of Dixon, Wyoming
  9. 2.7 14 km SE of Sinclair, 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.

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