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M 2.0ml

Wyoming

· 9.0 km deep · released about 29 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Rich County 38 kmLincoln County 52 kmUinta County 58 kmBear Lake County 71 kmCache County 77 kmFranklin County 94 kmMorgan County 98 kmSummit County 101 kmWeber County 104 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (ml)
Depth
9.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Rich County, 38 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3449 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 29 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 520,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 370,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 33× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 29 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 41.7710, -110.8218. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Rich County, UT 38 km (24 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Rich County
Lincoln County, WY 52 km (33 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Uinta County, WY 58 km (36 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Uinta County
Bear Lake County, ID 71 km (44 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Bear Lake County
Cache County, UT 77 km (48 mi) E of here earthquakes near Cache County
Franklin County, ID 94 km (58 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Franklin County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 8 km SSW of Randolph, Utah
  2. 2.1 8 km SSW of Randolph, Utah
  3. 1.7 19 km NE of Bear River, Wyoming
  4. 2.8 10 km N of Bear River, Wyoming
  5. 1.8 16 km E of Saint Charles, Idaho
  6. 2.0 7 km WNW of Woodruff, Utah
  7. 2.1 1 km WSW of Diamondville, Wyoming
  8. 2.6 18 km W of Fontenelle, Wyoming
  9. 1.9 10 km W of Diamondville, Wyoming
  10. 1.6 17 km W of Kemmerer, Wyoming
  11. 1.6 10 km W of Woodruff, Utah
  12. 2.6 20 km NE of Randolph, Utah
  13. 2.1 10 km ESE of Randolph, Utah
  14. 2.7 15 km W of Diamondville, Wyoming
  15. 2.4 10 km SW of Oakley, 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.

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