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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5ml

10 km NE of Soda Springs, Idaho

· 13 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Caribou County 8 kmBear Lake County 50 kmBannock County 59 kmFranklin County 66 kmBonneville County 76 kmLincoln County 87 kmBingham County 91 kmOneida County 102 kmPower County 109 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
13 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Caribou County, 8 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2944 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 5.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 180× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.4 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 42.7153, -111.5073. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Caribou County, ID 8 km (5 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Caribou County
Bear Lake County, ID 50 km (31 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Bear Lake County
Bannock County, ID 59 km (37 mi) E of here earthquakes near Bannock County
Franklin County, ID 66 km (41 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Franklin County
Bonneville County, ID 76 km (47 mi) S of here earthquakes near Bonneville County
Lincoln County, WY 87 km (54 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Lincoln 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. 1.8 11 km E of Soda Springs, Idaho
  2. 1.9 9 km E of Soda Springs, Idaho
  3. 2.0 18 km ENE of Georgetown, Idaho
  4. 1.5 9 km NNW of Soda Springs, Idaho
  5. 2.0 10 km E of Soda Springs, Idaho
  6. 2.1 10 km E of Soda Springs, Idaho
  7. 1.8 southern Idaho
  8. 2.3 10 km E of Soda Springs, Idaho
  9. 2.1 11 km E of Soda Springs, Idaho
  10. 2.2 11 km E of Soda Springs, Idaho
  11. 1.6 9 km NNW of Georgetown, Idaho
  12. 2.0 14 km ENE of Soda Springs, Idaho
  13. 1.7 13 km E of Soda Springs, Idaho
  14. 1.6 13 km ENE of Soda Springs, Idaho
  15. 1.7 14 km ENE of Soda Springs, 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 500,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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