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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.8ml

16 km SSW of Mammoth, Wyoming

· 11 km deep · released about 490 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Park County 72 kmGallatin County 81 kmFremont County 89 kmTeton County 93 kmPark County 102 kmMadison County 104 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 2.8 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Park County, 72 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2231 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 490 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 31,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 22,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.9× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.8 about 490 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 44.8413, -110.7815. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Park County, MT 72 km (45 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Park County
Gallatin County, MT 81 km (50 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Gallatin County
Fremont County, ID 89 km (55 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Fremont County
Teton County, WY 93 km (58 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Teton County
Park County, WY 102 km (63 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Park County
Madison County, MT 104 km (65 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Madison County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 20 km SW of Mammoth, Wyoming
  2. 1.6 9 km E of Hebgen Lake Estates, Montana
  3. 3.1 9 km E of Hebgen Lake Estates, Montana
  4. 2.1 9 km E of Hebgen Lake Estates, Montana
  5. 1.9 Wyoming
  6. 1.5 34 km ESE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  7. 1.5 34 km ESE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  8. 1.5 32 km E of West Yellowstone, Montana
  9. 1.8 9 km ENE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  10. 1.7 35 km ESE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  11. 2.2 35 km ESE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  12. 2.0 35 km ESE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  13. 2.0 15 km NE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  14. 1.6 22 km SSW of Mammoth, Wyoming
  15. 1.6 25 km SSE of West Yellowstone, Montana

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 210 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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