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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.3ml

29 km SW of Lima, Montana

· 10 km deep · released about 85 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Clark County 43 kmBeaverhead County 77 kmJefferson County 84 kmButte County 88 kmLemhi County 98 kmFremont County 112 kmCuster County 113 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 2.3 (ml)
Depth
10 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Clark County, 43 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2199 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 85 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 130,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 11× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 85 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 44.4437, -112.8521. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Clark County, ID 43 km (27 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Clark County
Beaverhead County, MT 77 km (48 mi) S of here earthquakes near Beaverhead County
Jefferson County, ID 84 km (52 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Jefferson County
Butte County, ID 88 km (55 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Butte County
Lemhi County, ID 98 km (61 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Lemhi County
Fremont County, ID 112 km (69 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Fremont 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. 1.6 Idaho-Montana border region
  2. 2.4 4 km SE of Lima, Montana
  3. 1.7 2 km S of Lima, Montana
  4. 1.6 Idaho-Montana border region
  5. 1.9 2 km S of Lima, Montana
  6. 1.5 2 km S of Lima, Montana
  7. 1.8 2 km SSE of Lima, Montana
  8. 2.5 2 km S of Lima, Montana
  9. 2.4 2 km S of Lima, Montana
  10. 2.3 2 km SSE of Lima, Montana
  11. 1.7 2 km S of Lima, Montana
  12. 1.8 2 km SSE of Lima, Montana
  13. 1.8 2 km S of Lima, Montana
  14. 1.6 Idaho-Montana border region
  15. 4.2 3 km S of Lima, 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 4.6 on 2019-04-09 — it released about 2,800 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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