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M 2.8ml

7 km N of Smiths Ferry, Idaho

· 14 km deep · released about 480 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Gem County 42 kmBoise County 52 kmWashington County 57 kmAdams County 64 kmValley County 66 kmPayette County 66 kmCanyon County 96 kmAda County 103 kmElmore County 119 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 2.8 (ml)
Depth
14 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Gem County, 42 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 837 days ago

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

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 480 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 32,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 22,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.8 about 480 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 44.3688, -116.0925. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Gem County, ID 42 km (26 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Gem County
Boise County, ID 52 km (32 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Boise County
Washington County, ID 57 km (35 mi) E of here earthquakes near Washington County
Adams County, ID 64 km (40 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Adams County
Valley County, ID 66 km (41 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Valley County
Payette County, ID 66 km (41 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Payette 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. 1.8 6 km NNW of Smiths Ferry, Idaho
  2. 1.9 7 km N of Smiths Ferry, Idaho
  3. 2.7 7 km NNW of Smiths Ferry, Idaho
  4. 1.8 7 km NNW of Smiths Ferry, Idaho
  5. 2.7 6 km N of Smiths Ferry, Idaho
  6. 1.9 6 km N of Smiths Ferry, Idaho
  7. 2.3 7 km NNW of Smiths Ferry, Idaho
  8. 2.0 6 km NNW of Smiths Ferry, Idaho
  9. 2.1 6 km NNW of Smiths Ferry, Idaho
  10. 2.1 8 km NW of Smiths Ferry, Idaho
  11. 1.8 6 km NNW of Smiths Ferry, Idaho
  12. 1.9 7 km NNW of Smiths Ferry, Idaho
  13. 1.9 8 km NW of Smiths Ferry, Idaho
  14. 2.1 18 km WSW of Cascade, Idaho
  15. 2.4 7 km NNW of Smiths Ferry, 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 4.9 on 2024-02-26 — it released about 1,400 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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