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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

32 km SW of Silver Gate, Montana

· 9.5 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Park County 60 kmPark County 80 kmTeton County 83 kmCarbon County 107 kmGallatin County 110 kmFremont County 117 kmSweet Grass County 117 kmStillwater County 119 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 1.7 (ml)
Depth
9.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Park County, 60 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 206 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 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.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 970,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 86× the energy of this one
  4. 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.

Where

Epicentre 44.7790, -110.2392. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Park County, WY 60 km (37 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Park County
Park County, MT 80 km (49 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Park County
Teton County, WY 83 km (51 mi) N of here earthquakes near Teton County
Carbon County, MT 107 km (67 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Carbon County
Gallatin County, MT 110 km (68 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Gallatin County
Fremont County, ID 117 km (73 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Fremont County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 37 km S of Silver Gate, Montana
  2. 0.9 41 km SSE of Mammoth, Wyoming
  3. 0.4 17 km SSW of Mammoth, Wyoming
  4. 1.8 25 km SSW of Mammoth, Wyoming
  5. 1.6 19 km SSW of Mammoth, Wyoming
  6. 1.5 62 km ESE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  7. 1.6 49 km ESE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  8. 1.8 34 km S of Silver Gate, Montana
  9. 1.9 24 km S of Silver Gate, Montana
  10. 2.0 24 km SSW of Silver Gate, Montana
  11. 1.5 29 km ESE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  12. 2.0 37 km S of Silver Gate, Montana
  13. 1.5 30 km ESE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  14. 3.3 39 km SSE of Mammoth, Wyoming
  15. 1.7 25 km SE of Mammoth, 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 4.2 on 2022-05-11 — it released about 5,800 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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