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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

southern Idaho

· 10 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Custer County 40 kmBoise County 84 kmCamas County 89 kmValley County 92 kmLemhi County 97 kmElmore County 117 kmBlaine County 120 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 1.7 (ml)
Depth
10 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Custer County, 40 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1345 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 11 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 89× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 44.3061, -114.7541. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Custer County, ID 40 km (25 mi) W of here earthquakes near Custer County
Boise County, ID 84 km (52 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Boise County
Camas County, ID 89 km (56 mi) N of here earthquakes near Camas County
Valley County, ID 92 km (57 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Valley County
Lemhi County, ID 97 km (61 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Lemhi County
Elmore County, ID 117 km (72 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Elmore 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. 2.5 8 km NW of Stanley, Idaho
  2. 2.8 14 km WNW of Stanley, Idaho
  3. 2.8 11 km WNW of Stanley, Idaho
  4. 2.8 southern Idaho
  5. 2.7 24 km NNW of Clayton, Idaho
  6. 2.5 31 km NW of Stanley, Idaho
  7. 2.8 12 km ENE of Stanley, Idaho
  8. 2.5 25 km NW of Stanley, Idaho
  9. 3.0 9 km NE of Stanley, Idaho
  10. 2.8 22 km WNW of Clayton, Idaho
  11. 2.2 34 km NW of Stanley, Idaho
  12. 2.1 southern Idaho
  13. 2.3 24 km NW of Stanley, Idaho
  14. 1.5 21 km NNW of Challis, Idaho
  15. 2.0 southern 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 16,000,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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