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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

12 km W of Bloomington, Idaho

· 4.8 km deep · released about 9.3 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Franklin County 22 kmBear Lake County 22 kmCache County 52 kmRich County 67 kmCaribou County 67 kmLincoln County 72 kmOneida County 79 kmBannock County 79 kmWeber County 104 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
4.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Franklin County, 22 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1931 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 9.3 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 1,600,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,100,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 100× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 9.3 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 42.1792, -111.5567. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Franklin County, ID 22 km (14 mi) E of here earthquakes near Franklin County
Bear Lake County, ID 22 km (14 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Bear Lake County
Cache County, UT 52 km (32 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Cache County
Rich County, UT 67 km (41 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Rich County
Caribou County, ID 67 km (42 mi) S of here earthquakes near Caribou County
Lincoln County, WY 72 km (45 mi) W of here earthquakes near Lincoln County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 17 km ENE of North Logan, Utah
  2. 1.7 16 km W of Paris, Idaho
  3. 1.8 7 km NW of Georgetown, Idaho
  4. 1.6 11 km ESE of Soda Springs, Idaho
  5. 1.5 southern Idaho
  6. 2.0 4 km NE of Trenton, Utah
  7. 1.7 8 km ESE of Grace, Idaho
  8. 2.6 13 km NNW of Georgetown, Idaho
  9. 2.1 2 km S of Grace, Idaho
  10. 2.6 3 km SE of Grace, Idaho
  11. 1.7 1 km SE of Grace, Idaho
  12. 2.2 13 km N of Georgetown, Idaho
  13. 1.6 12 km ENE of Bennington, Idaho
  14. 1.6 5 km N of Georgetown, Idaho
  15. 2.1 6 km NNW 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 5.0 on 2017-09-10 — it released about 100,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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