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M 3.1ml

Oregon-Idaho border region

· 12 km deep · released about 1,300 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Gem County 32 kmBoise County 50 kmWashington County 52 kmPayette County 57 kmAdams County 68 kmValley County 76 kmCanyon County 87 kmAda County 95 kmElmore County 115 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 3.1 (ml)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
11 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Gem County, 32 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1949 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 11 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,300 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 250,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 11,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 7,900× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.1 about 1,300 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.4× 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 44.3022, -116.1711. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Gem County, ID 32 km (20 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Gem County
Boise County, ID 50 km (31 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Boise County
Washington County, ID 52 km (33 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Washington County
Payette County, ID 57 km (35 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Payette County
Adams County, ID 68 km (42 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Adams County
Valley County, ID 76 km (47 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Valley 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. 2.6 6 km WSW of Smiths Ferry, Idaho
  2. 3.7 11 km S of Donnelly, Idaho
  3. 2.6 11 km WSW of Smiths Ferry, Idaho
  4. 2.6 8 km W of Smiths Ferry, Idaho
  5. 1.6 11 km WSW of Smiths Ferry, Idaho
  6. 2.7 14 km W of Smiths Ferry, Idaho
  7. 2.9 12 km WSW of Smiths Ferry, Idaho
  8. 2.2 9 km WSW of Smiths Ferry, Idaho
  9. 1.8 Oregon-Idaho border region
  10. 3.4 14 km SW of Smiths Ferry, Idaho
  11. 1.8 10 km NNW of Cascade, Idaho
  12. 2.1 5 km N of Smiths Ferry, Idaho
  13. 1.9 6 km S of Cascade, Idaho
  14. 1.6 8 km WNW of Smiths Ferry, Idaho
  15. 2.0 9 km NNE of Cascade, 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.

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