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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.8ml

7 km SW of West Yellowstone, Montana

· 9.4 km deep · released about 16 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Fremont County 50 kmTeton County 86 kmTeton County 95 kmMadison County 99 kmMadison County 99 kmClark County 100 kmGallatin County 101 kmPark County 107 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 1.8 (ml)
Depth
9.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Fremont County, 50 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1075 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 16 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 970,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 680,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 61× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 16 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 44.6105, -111.1710. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Fremont County, ID 50 km (31 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Fremont County
Teton County, WY 86 km (54 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Teton County
Teton County, ID 95 km (59 mi) N of here earthquakes near Teton County
Madison County, MT 99 km (61 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Madison County
Madison County, ID 99 km (62 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Madison County
Clark County, ID 100 km (62 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Clark County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 6 km ESE of Hebgen Lake Estates, Montana
  2. 2.0 9 km WNW of Hebgen Lake Estates, Montana
  3. 2.4 5 km E of Hebgen Lake Estates, Montana
  4. 1.7 18 km NE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  5. 1.6 43 km SSE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  6. 2.5 40 km SSE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  7. 1.7 42 km SSE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  8. 1.5 29 km WNW of Hebgen Lake Estates, Montana
  9. 1.6 29 km ESE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  10. 2.2 6 km E of Hebgen Lake Estates, Montana
  11. 1.7 6 km ENE of Hebgen Lake Estates, Montana
  12. 1.6 21 km NE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  13. 1.5 15 km ENE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  14. 2.1 15 km ENE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  15. 2.0 16 km WSW of West Yellowstone, Montana

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 4.4 on 2017-06-16 — it released about 6,700 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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