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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

2 km NNW of Hebgen Lake Estates, Montana

· 8.0 km deep · released about 6.8 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Fremont County 68 kmGallatin County 81 kmMadison County 82 kmPark County 91 kmTeton County 103 kmClark County 107 kmTeton County 115 kmMadison County 117 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
8.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Fremont County, 68 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2602 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 6.8 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 2,200,000× 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 6.8 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 44.7915, -111.2000. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Fremont County, ID 68 km (42 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Fremont County
Gallatin County, MT 81 km (50 mi) S of here earthquakes near Gallatin County
Madison County, MT 82 km (51 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Madison County
Park County, MT 91 km (57 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Park County
Teton County, WY 103 km (64 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Teton County
Clark County, ID 107 km (67 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Clark County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 25 km S of Mammoth, Wyoming
  2. 1.6 6 km SSE of Hebgen Lake Estates, Montana
  3. 2.6 27 km W of Hebgen Lake Estates, Montana
  4. 1.6 27 km W of Hebgen Lake Estates, Montana
  5. 2.4 29 km W of Hebgen Lake Estates, Montana
  6. 1.8 30 km E of West Yellowstone, Montana
  7. 1.7 6 km SE of Hebgen Lake Estates, Montana
  8. 1.6 15 km E of West Yellowstone, Montana
  9. 1.7 26 km ENE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  10. 1.8 26 km ENE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  11. 2.1 26 km ENE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  12. 1.6 26 km ENE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  13. 2.0 26 km ENE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  14. 1.6 32 km ESE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  15. 1.6 21 km S of Mammoth, 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.4 on 2017-06-16 — it released about 15,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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