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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

3 km W of Georgetown, Idaho

· 5.4 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Bear Lake County 23 kmCaribou County 35 kmFranklin County 48 kmLincoln County 66 kmBannock County 71 kmCache County 88 kmRich County 96 kmOneida County 97 kmBonneville County 103 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
5.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Bear Lake County, 23 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2391 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 11 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,300,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 930,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 83× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 42.4847, -111.4138. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Bear Lake County, ID 23 km (14 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Bear Lake County
Caribou County, ID 35 km (22 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Caribou County
Franklin County, ID 48 km (30 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Franklin County
Lincoln County, WY 66 km (41 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Bannock County, ID 71 km (44 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Bannock County
Cache County, UT 88 km (55 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

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

  1. 1.6 13 km ESE of Soda Springs, Idaho
  2. 1.6 8 km E of Soda Springs, Idaho
  3. 2.4 7 km ENE of Bancroft, Idaho
  4. 2.4 8 km E of Bancroft, Idaho
  5. 1.8 11 km NNW of Georgetown, Idaho
  6. 2.9 11 km NNW of Georgetown, Idaho
  7. 3.5 13 km NNW of Georgetown, Idaho
  8. 1.5 10 km NNW of Georgetown, Idaho
  9. 2.0 20 km SW of Smoot, Wyoming
  10. 1.6 7 km ESE of Grace, Idaho
  11. 1.6 11 km NNW of Georgetown, Idaho
  12. 1.7 13 km WSW of Georgetown, Idaho
  13. 2.1 13 km ESE of Soda Springs, Idaho
  14. 2.2 13 km SW of Fairview, Wyoming
  15. 1.6 14 km N 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 230,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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