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M 3.2ml

20 km W of Fairview, Wyoming

· 5.0 km deep · released about 1,900 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Caribou County 29 kmBear Lake County 43 kmLincoln County 66 kmFranklin County 73 kmBannock County 82 kmBonneville County 87 kmSublette County 108 kmCache County 112 kmBingham County 113 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 3.2 (ml)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Caribou County, 29 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 298 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 1,900 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 7,900× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 5,600× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1,900 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2× 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 42.6645, -111.2295. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Caribou County, ID 29 km (18 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Caribou County
Bear Lake County, ID 43 km (27 mi) N of here earthquakes near Bear Lake County
Lincoln County, WY 66 km (41 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Franklin County, ID 73 km (45 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Franklin County
Bannock County, ID 82 km (51 mi) E of here earthquakes near Bannock County
Bonneville County, ID 87 km (54 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Bonneville 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. 1.5 11 km E of Bancroft, Idaho
  2. 2.9 23 km WNW of Auburn, Wyoming
  3. 1.6 9 km NW of Georgetown, Idaho
  4. 1.9 6 km W of Bennington, Idaho
  5. 1.8 7 km WSW of Bennington, Idaho
  6. 1.9 11 km NW of Georgetown, Idaho
  7. 1.9 9 km NW of Georgetown, Idaho
  8. 2.2 7 km WNW of Bennington, Idaho
  9. 1.5 6 km WSW of Bennington, Idaho
  10. 2.0 6 km W of Bennington, Idaho
  11. 3.2 6 km WSW of Bennington, Idaho
  12. 1.9 6 km WSW of Bennington, Idaho
  13. 3.0 6 km WSW of Bennington, Idaho
  14. 2.3 6 km W of Bennington, Idaho
  15. 1.7 5 km SSW of Georgetown, 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 5.3 on 2017-09-02 — 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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