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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.5mwr

0 km WSW of Lima, Montana

· 12 km deep · released about 2.7 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Clark County 43 kmBeaverhead County 60 kmMadison County 94 kmJefferson County 96 kmFremont County 100 kmLemhi County 107 kmButte 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 3.5 (mwr)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
5 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Measured shaking
intensity III (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Clark County, 43 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1065 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 5 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 2.7 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 63,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.5 about 2.7 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 5.6× 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 44.6349, -112.5968. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Clark County, ID 43 km (27 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Clark County
Beaverhead County, MT 60 km (37 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Beaverhead County
Madison County, MT 94 km (58 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Madison County
Jefferson County, ID 96 km (60 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Jefferson County
Fremont County, ID 100 km (62 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Fremont County
Lemhi County, ID 107 km (66 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Lemhi County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 11 km SE of Lima, Montana
  2. 1.9 11 km SE of Lima, Montana
  3. 1.8 11 km SE of Lima, Montana
  4. 1.7 10 km SE of Lima, Montana
  5. 2.6 9 km SE of Lima, Montana
  6. 1.7 25 km E of Leadore, Idaho
  7. 1.9 12 km NE of Lima, Montana
  8. 1.5 12 km NE of Lima, Montana
  9. 1.7 31 km NW of Lima, Montana
  10. 2.0 22 km NE of Lima, Montana
  11. 2.3 22 km NE of Lima, Montana
  12. 1.6 21 km NNW of Lima, Montana
  13. 1.8 35 km SSW of Lima, Montana
  14. 2.3 3 km NE of Lima, Montana
  15. 2.3 17 km NW of Lima, Montana

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 4.6 on 2019-04-09 — it released about 45 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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