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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7md

15 km WSW of Bennington, Idaho

· -3.0 km deep · released about 12 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Bear Lake County 17 kmFranklin County 33 kmCaribou County 48 kmLincoln County 69 kmBannock County 70 kmCache County 72 kmRich County 84 kmOneida County 85 kmPower County 116 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (md)
Depth
-3.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Bear Lake County, 17 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1329 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 12 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 1,300,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 900,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 80× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 12 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 42.3543, -111.5073. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Bear Lake County, ID 17 km (10 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Bear Lake County
Franklin County, ID 33 km (20 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Franklin County
Caribou County, ID 48 km (30 mi) S of here earthquakes near Caribou County
Lincoln County, WY 69 km (43 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Bannock County, ID 70 km (44 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Bannock County
Cache County, UT 72 km (45 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Cache 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. 1.6 16 km ENE of Bennington, Idaho
  2. 2.3 17 km WSW of Georgetown, Idaho
  3. 3.8 19 km WSW of Fairview, Wyoming
  4. 1.8 21 km NNE of Georgetown, Idaho
  5. 2.3 12 km SW of Saint Charles, Idaho
  6. 2.0 1 km SSE of Paris, Idaho
  7. 1.5 17 km W of Bloomington, Idaho
  8. 1.6 12 km ENE of Soda Springs, Idaho
  9. 2.5 10 km ENE of Soda Springs, Idaho
  10. 2.6 8 km NE of Soda Springs, Idaho
  11. 2.2 16 km SE of Grace, Idaho
  12. 1.7 17 km WSW of Georgetown, Idaho
  13. 2.1 14 km SW of Georgetown, Idaho
  14. 2.7 17 km SE of Grace, Idaho
  15. 1.9 18 km SW of Fairview, Wyoming

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 230,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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