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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.3ml

21 km ESE of Kelly, Wyoming

· 5.0 km deep · released about 85 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Teton County 59 kmTeton County 71 kmSublette County 92 kmBonneville County 99 kmMadison County 105 kmFremont County 116 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
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Teton County, 59 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1499 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

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 43.5196, -110.4013. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Teton County, WY 59 km (37 mi) S of here earthquakes near Teton County
Teton County, ID 71 km (44 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Teton County
Sublette County, WY 92 km (57 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Sublette County
Bonneville County, ID 99 km (62 mi) E of here earthquakes near Bonneville County
Madison County, ID 105 km (65 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Madison County
Fremont County, ID 116 km (72 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Fremont County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 8 km W of Hoback, Wyoming
  2. 3.1 10 km W of Hoback, Wyoming
  3. 2.1 8 km WNW of Hoback, Wyoming
  4. 1.8 8 km W of Hoback, Wyoming
  5. 2.5 26 km NNE of Bondurant, Wyoming
  6. 2.9 13 km ESE of Kelly, Wyoming
  7. 2.6 10 km S of Bondurant, Wyoming
  8. 1.7 7 km SE of South Park, Wyoming
  9. 2.5 23 km ESE of Kelly, Wyoming
  10. 1.9 9 km E of Kelly, Wyoming
  11. 1.8 22 km E of Kelly, Wyoming
  12. 1.8 14 km SSE of Bondurant, Wyoming
  13. 1.6 8 km S of Hoback, Wyoming
  14. 1.9 5 km NNW of Hoback, Wyoming
  15. 1.7 5 km SE of Hoback, 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 4.8 on 2016-08-27 — 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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