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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.6ml

10 km S of Bondurant, Wyoming

· 12 km deep · released about 240 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Sublette County 54 kmTeton County 98 kmLincoln County 100 kmCaribou County 100 kmBonneville County 105 kmTeton County 105 kmBear Lake 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 2.6 (ml)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Sublette County, 54 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 824 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 240 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 63,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 45,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 240 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 43.1057, -110.3919. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Sublette County, WY 54 km (34 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Sublette County
Teton County, ID 98 km (61 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Teton County
Lincoln County, WY 100 km (62 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Caribou County, ID 100 km (62 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Caribou County
Bonneville County, ID 105 km (65 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Bonneville County
Teton County, WY 105 km (65 mi) S of here earthquakes near Teton County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 23 km ESE of Jackson, Wyoming
  2. 2.3 22 km ESE of Jackson, Wyoming
  3. 2.2 25 km SE of Kelly, Wyoming
  4. 1.6 22 km SE of Kelly, Wyoming
  5. 2.1 23 km ESE of Jackson, Wyoming
  6. 2.0 23 km ESE of Jackson, Wyoming
  7. 1.8 27 km NNE of Bondurant, Wyoming
  8. 2.0 3 km NE of Hoback, Wyoming
  9. 3.1 26 km ESE of Kelly, Wyoming
  10. 2.6 5 km NNE of Star Valley Ranch, Wyoming
  11. 1.8 6 km ESE of South Park, Wyoming
  12. 1.7 6 km ESE of South Park, Wyoming
  13. 1.9 11 km W of Bondurant, Wyoming
  14. 1.7 11 km W of Bondurant, Wyoming
  15. 2.2 12 km ESE of South Park, 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 2,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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