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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.3ml

16 km WSW of Auburn, Wyoming

· 7.2 km deep · released about 85 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Caribou County 29 kmBear Lake County 51 kmLincoln County 70 kmFranklin County 81 kmBonneville County 81 kmBannock County 85 kmSublette County 104 kmBingham County 112 kmTeton County 114 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (ml)
Depth
7.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Caribou County, 29 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1833 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 85 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 130,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 11× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 85 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 42.7355, -111.1922. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Caribou County, ID 29 km (18 mi) E of here earthquakes near Caribou County
Bear Lake County, ID 51 km (32 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Bear Lake County
Lincoln County, WY 70 km (44 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Franklin County, ID 81 km (50 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Franklin County
Bonneville County, ID 81 km (50 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Bonneville County
Bannock County, ID 85 km (53 mi) E of here earthquakes near Bannock County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 15 km WSW of Bennington, Idaho
  2. 1.6 4 km S of Fairview, Wyoming
  3. 2.3 12 km W of Fairview, Wyoming
  4. 2.3 13 km ESE of Soda Springs, Idaho
  5. 2.2 southern Idaho
  6. 3.1 40 km N of Soda Springs, Idaho
  7. 1.6 12 km WNW of Fairview, Wyoming
  8. 1.8 7 km NW of Georgetown, Idaho
  9. 1.6 11 km ESE of Soda Springs, Idaho
  10. 1.6 southern Idaho
  11. 1.5 southern Idaho
  12. 1.7 19 km WSW of Fairview, Wyoming
  13. 1.7 8 km ESE of Grace, Idaho
  14. 2.3 10 km E of Soda Springs, Idaho
  15. 1.9 14 km NE 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 32,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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