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M 1.5ml

southern Idaho

· 7.4 km deep · released about 5.9 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Bear Lake County 21 kmLincoln County 33 kmFranklin County 61 kmRich County 66 kmCaribou County 74 kmCache County 76 kmBannock County 108 kmUinta County 112 kmSublette County 114 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
7.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Bear Lake County, 21 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1410 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 5.9 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,800,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 160× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.9 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 42.2113, -111.0867. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Bear Lake County, ID 21 km (13 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Bear Lake County
Lincoln County, WY 33 km (21 mi) W of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Franklin County, ID 61 km (38 mi) E of here earthquakes near Franklin County
Rich County, UT 66 km (41 mi) N of here earthquakes near Rich County
Caribou County, ID 74 km (46 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Caribou County
Cache County, UT 76 km (47 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Cache County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 8 km NW of Garden City, Utah
  2. 1.7 8 km NW of Garden City, Utah
  3. 1.6 16 km ENE of Bennington, Idaho
  4. 2.3 17 km WSW of Georgetown, Idaho
  5. 3.8 19 km WSW of Fairview, Wyoming
  6. 2.3 12 km SW of Saint Charles, Idaho
  7. 2.0 1 km SSE of Paris, Idaho
  8. 1.5 17 km W of Bloomington, Idaho
  9. 1.7 17 km WSW of Georgetown, Idaho
  10. 2.1 14 km SW of Georgetown, Idaho
  11. 2.7 17 km SE of Grace, Idaho
  12. 1.9 18 km SW of Fairview, Wyoming
  13. 1.9 13 km SW of Fairview, Wyoming
  14. 2.6 13 km SW of Fairview, Wyoming
  15. 2.1 7 km NW 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 160,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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