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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.3ml

3 km WNW of Montpelier, Idaho

· 1.7 km deep · released about 72 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Bear Lake County 6 kmFranklin County 44 kmCaribou County 53 kmLincoln County 55 kmCache County 75 kmRich County 79 kmBannock County 83 kmOneida County 99 kmBonneville County 120 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (ml)
Depth
1.7 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Bear Lake County, 6 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 419 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 72 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 5.8 210,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 150,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 13× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 72 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 42.3392, -111.3322. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Bear Lake County, ID 6 km (4 mi) N of here earthquakes near Bear Lake County
Franklin County, ID 44 km (28 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Franklin County
Caribou County, ID 53 km (33 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Caribou County
Lincoln County, WY 55 km (34 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Cache County, UT 75 km (47 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Cache County
Rich County, UT 79 km (49 mi) N of here earthquakes near Rich 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.

  1. 1.6 9 km NW of Georgetown, Idaho
  2. 1.9 6 km W of Bennington, Idaho
  3. 1.8 7 km WSW of Bennington, Idaho
  4. 1.9 11 km NW of Georgetown, Idaho
  5. 1.9 9 km NW of Georgetown, Idaho
  6. 2.2 7 km WNW of Bennington, Idaho
  7. 1.5 6 km WSW of Bennington, Idaho
  8. 2.0 6 km W of Bennington, Idaho
  9. 3.2 6 km WSW of Bennington, Idaho
  10. 1.9 6 km WSW of Bennington, Idaho
  11. 3.0 6 km WSW of Bennington, Idaho
  12. 2.6 15 km W of Paris, Idaho
  13. 2.3 6 km W of Bennington, Idaho
  14. 1.7 5 km SSW of Georgetown, Idaho
  15. 2.4 17 km WSW of Auburn, 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 38,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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