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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

14 km W of Georgetown, Idaho

· 12 km deep · released about 6.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Bear Lake County 27 kmCaribou County 36 kmFranklin County 39 kmBannock County 61 kmLincoln County 76 kmCache County 83 kmOneida County 86 kmRich County 96 kmBonneville County 104 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Bear Lake County, 27 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2980 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 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.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,300,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,600,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 140× the energy of this one
  4. 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.

Where

Epicentre 42.4628, -111.5477. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Bear Lake County, ID 27 km (17 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Bear Lake County
Caribou County, ID 36 km (22 mi) S of here earthquakes near Caribou County
Franklin County, ID 39 km (24 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Franklin County
Bannock County, ID 61 km (38 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Bannock County
Lincoln County, WY 76 km (47 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Cache County, UT 83 km (51 mi) NNE of here 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.

  1. 2.1 southern Idaho
  2. 3.0 9 km E of Soda Springs, Idaho
  3. 1.8 10 km E of Soda Springs, Idaho
  4. 2.0 10 km E of Soda Springs, Idaho
  5. 3.2 9 km E of Soda Springs, Idaho
  6. 2.3 15 km WSW of Fairview, Wyoming
  7. 2.1 17 km SW of Fairview, Wyoming
  8. 2.2 9 km NW of Georgetown, Idaho
  9. 2.0 15 km NNW of Georgetown, Idaho
  10. 1.8 19 km SW of Fairview, Wyoming
  11. 2.0 3 km WNW of Montpelier, Idaho
  12. 2.3 13 km NNW of Georgetown, Idaho
  13. 2.4 19 km SW of Fairview, Wyoming
  14. 2.1 12 km E of Soda Springs, Idaho
  15. 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 5.3 on 2017-09-02 — it released about 410,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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