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M 4.0mwr

39 km NNW of Stanley, Idaho

· 10 km deep · released about 15 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Valley County 51 kmBoise County 73 kmCuster County 79 kmAdams County 109 kmGem County 110 kmLemhi County 112 kmCamas County 118 km
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When
Magnitude
M 4.0 (mwr)
Depth
10 km below the surface
Felt
19 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
green
Nearest
Valley County, 51 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2140 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon. 19 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 15 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 11,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 500× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 350× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.0 about 15 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 32× more

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 44.5247, -115.1794. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Valley County, ID 51 km (31 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Valley County
Boise County, ID 73 km (46 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Boise County
Custer County, ID 79 km (49 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Custer County
Adams County, ID 109 km (68 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Adams County
Gem County, ID 110 km (68 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Gem County
Lemhi County, ID 112 km (69 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Lemhi 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 9 km NW of Stanley, Idaho
  2. 2.3 17 km WNW of Stanley, Idaho
  3. 1.8 17 km WNW of Stanley, Idaho
  4. 1.8 28 km ESE of Cascade, Idaho
  5. 2.1 34 km NW of Stanley, Idaho
  6. 2.4 15 km SW of Stanley, Idaho
  7. 2.0 16 km SW of Stanley, ID
  8. 1.8 36 km NW of Stanley, Idaho
  9. 1.5 14 km W of Stanley, Idaho
  10. 2.2 8 km NW of Stanley, Idaho
  11. 2.2 8 km NNE of Stanley, Idaho
  12. 2.5 15 km SW of Stanley, Idaho
  13. 1.9 15 km SW of Stanley, Idaho
  14. 2.4 35 km NW of Stanley, Idaho
  15. 1.9 19 km WNW of Stanley, Idaho

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 6.5 on 2020-03-31 — it released about 5,600 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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