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M 1.7ml
Earthquake near Preston, ID
No earthquake was likely felt in Preston in the 24 hours to 4:40 pm MST (23:40 UTC). The last one was M 3.8, 50 km (31 mi) NE, at 5:05 am MDT on 15 May 2026, estimated intensity II (weak) in town; 29 felt reports to USGS. Every earthquake near Preston
This page: a magnitude 1.7 earthquake was recorded 27 km (17 mi) east-northeast of Preston, ID, at 1:47 am MDT on 1 November 2022 (07:47 UTC), 11 km deep.
USGS: 16 km W of Paris, Idaho
57 km (36 mi) NNE of Logan, UT
- When
- 1:47 am MDT on 1 November 2022 ()
- Where
- 27 km (17 mi) east-northeast of Preston, ID · earthquakes near Preston
- Idaho today
- every earthquake in Idaho in the last 24 hours
- Magnitude
- M 1.7 (ml)
- Depth
- 11 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Franklin County, 19 km WSW
- Nearest mapped fault
- East Cache fault, 13 km from its surface trace — near is not the same as on
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1472 days ago
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This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.
At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 7 km (4 mi) from the epicentre. In Preston, 27 km away, the estimate is intensity II (weak). Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.
Earthquakes near other towns within 30 km: Montpelier.
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.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,300,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 930,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 83× the energy of this one
- 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.
For this area
The largest earthquake within 50 km since 2016 was M 5.3 on 2017-09-02 — about 230,000 times the energy of this one.
Before 2016, the USGS record lists 3 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km:
- 5.8 8 km W of Garden City, Utah · 33 km SSE of this epicentre
- 5.2 16 km ENE of North Logan, Utah · 46 km S of this epicentre
- 5.0 2 km S of Richmond, Utah · 40 km SSW of this epicentre
Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.
Where
Epicentre 42.2232, -111.5977. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction from the epicentre | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin County, ID | 19 km (12 mi) | WSW | earthquakes near Franklin County |
| Bear Lake County, ID | 23 km (14 mi) | ENE | earthquakes near Bear Lake County |
| Cache County, UT | 56 km (35 mi) | SSW | earthquakes near Cache County |
| Caribou County, ID | 63 km (39 mi) | N | earthquakes near Caribou County |
| Rich County, UT | 73 km (45 mi) | SSE | earthquakes near Rich County |
| Bannock County, ID | 74 km (46 mi) | NW | earthquakes near Bannock County |
Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.
Aftershocks so far
46 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
- 2.0 southern Idaho
- 2.7 13 km ESE of Soda Springs, Idaho
- 1.6 southern Idaho
- 2.5 10 km WSW of Garden, Utah
- 2.0 19 km E of Georgetown, Idaho
- 1.9 12 km SE of Grace, Idaho
- 2.1 13 km NNW of Georgetown, Idaho
- 2.3 11 km NNW of Georgetown, Idaho
- 1.6 Utah
- 2.2 5 km NW of Georgetown, Idaho
- 2.3 14 km SW of Garden, Utah
- 2.0 8 km E of Soda Springs, Idaho
- 2.1 9 km E of Soda Springs, Idaho
- 1.5 14 km NNW of Georgetown, Idaho
- 1.7 15 km WSW of Bennington, 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.
On USGS
- The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
- Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
- ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one
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