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M 1.6ml
Earthquake near Conda, ID
No earthquake was likely felt in Conda in the 24 hours to 3:30 pm MST (22:30 UTC). The last one was M 2.1, 13 km (8 mi) SE, at 10:47 am MDT on 10 October 2026, estimated intensity II (weak) in town. Every earthquake near Conda
This page: a magnitude 1.6 earthquake was recorded 30 km (18 mi) south of Conda, ID, at 4:34 am MDT on 27 July 2018 (10:34 UTC), 12 km deep.
USGS: 14 km W of Georgetown, Idaho
- When
- 4:34 am MDT on 27 July 2018 ()
- Where
- 30 km (18 mi) south of Conda, ID · earthquakes near Conda
- Idaho today
- every earthquake in Idaho in the last 24 hours
- Magnitude
- M 1.6 (ml)
- Depth
- 12 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Bear Lake County, 27 km SE
- Nearest mapped fault
- Western Bear Lake fault, 8 km from its surface trace — near is not the same as on
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3026 days ago
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This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.
At this magnitude and depth it was probably too small to be felt, even directly above it. In Conda, 30 km away, the estimate is intensity I (not felt). Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.
Earthquakes near other towns within 30 km: Soda Springs, Montpelier.
How big was it?
This earthquake released about 6.6 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,300,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,600,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 140× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 1.6 about 6.6 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.
For this area
The largest earthquake within 50 km since 2016 was M 5.3 on 2017-09-02 — about 410,000 times the energy of this one.
Before 2016, the USGS record since 1900 lists no earthquake of M5 or more within 50 km.
Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.
Where
Epicentre 42.4628, -111.5477. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction from the epicentre | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bear Lake County, ID | 27 km (17 mi) | SE | earthquakes near Bear Lake County |
| Caribou County, ID | 36 km (22 mi) | N | earthquakes near Caribou County |
| Franklin County, ID | 39 km (24 mi) | SW | earthquakes near Franklin County |
| Bannock County, ID | 61 km (38 mi) | WNW | earthquakes near Bannock County |
| Lincoln County, WY | 76 km (47 mi) | ESE | earthquakes near Lincoln County |
| Cache County, UT | 83 km (51 mi) | SSW | earthquakes near Cache County |
Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.
Aftershocks so far
60 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
- 2.1 southern Idaho
- 3.0 9 km E of Soda Springs, Idaho
- 1.8 10 km E of Soda Springs, Idaho
- 2.0 10 km E of Soda Springs, Idaho
- 3.2 9 km E of Soda Springs, Idaho
- 2.3 15 km WSW of Fairview, Wyoming
- 2.1 17 km SW of Fairview, Wyoming
- 2.2 9 km NW of Georgetown, Idaho
- 2.0 15 km NNW of Georgetown, Idaho
- 1.8 19 km SW of Fairview, Wyoming
- 2.0 3 km WNW of Montpelier, Idaho
- 2.3 13 km NNW of Georgetown, Idaho
- 2.4 19 km SW of Fairview, Wyoming
- 2.1 12 km E of Soda Springs, Idaho
- 1.6 10 km WSW 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.
On USGS
- The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
- Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
- ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one
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