34 km NE of Kaycee, Wyoming

2020-05-17 15:50 UTC · 10 km deep · released about 170 lb of TNT

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: 2020-05-17 15:50 UTC
Magnitude: M 2.5 (ml)
Depth: 10 km below the surface
Felt: no reports yet
Nearest: Johnson County, 25 km WNW
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS 2247 days ago · we first saw it 2247 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.

Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 89,000× the energy of this one
Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 63,000× the energy of this one
Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 5.6× the energy of this one
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

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Epicentre 43.9179, -106.3234. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

Place	Distance	Direction
Johnson County, WY	25 km (16 mi)	ESE of here	earthquakes near Johnson County
Campbell County, WY	71 km (44 mi)	WSW of here	earthquakes near Campbell County
Sheridan County, WY	106 km (66 mi)	SSE of here	earthquakes near Sheridan County
Washakie County, WY	108 km (67 mi)	E of here	earthquakes near Washakie County
Natrona County, WY	111 km (69 mi)	NNE of here	earthquakes near Natrona County
Converse County, WY	122 km (76 mi)	NNW of here	earthquakes near Converse County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

2.8 50 km WSW of Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming 00:36 UTC
2.7 14 km SSE of Buffalo, Wyoming 22:30 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 07:27 UTC. QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

On USGS

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