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mining explosion · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.1ml

18 km E of Wright, Wyoming

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

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Campbell County 52 kmWeston County 57 kmConverse County 88 kmNiobrara County 101 kmCrook County 108 kmJohnson County 110 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
0.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Campbell County, 52 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1576 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

USGS catalogues this as mining explosion, not an earthquake.

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 43.7582, -105.2679. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Campbell County, WY 52 km (32 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Campbell County
Weston County, WY 57 km (35 mi) W of here earthquakes near Weston County
Converse County, WY 88 km (55 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Converse County
Niobrara County, WY 101 km (63 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Niobrara County
Crook County, WY 108 km (67 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Crook County
Johnson County, WY 110 km (69 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Johnson County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.3 14 km ENE of Wright, Wyoming
  2. 3.1 13 km ENE of Wright, Wyoming
  3. 3.3 7 km ESE of Wright, Wyoming
  4. 3.2 Wyoming
  5. 3.2 26 km SE of Wright, Wyoming
  6. 3.1 35 km SE of Wright, Wyoming
  7. 3.4 Wyoming
  8. 3.3 20 km SSE of Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming
  9. 3.2 Wyoming
  10. 2.9 19 km SSE of Sleepy Hollow, Wyoming
  11. 3.0 14 km ENE of Wright, Wyoming
  12. 3.3 17 km ESE of Wright, Wyoming
  13. 3.2 Wyoming
  14. 3.0 Wyoming
  15. 3.0 12 km E of Wright, 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.0 on 2021-07-20 — it released about 22 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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