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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.1ml

3 km W of Bennington, Idaho

· -2.9 km deep · released about 47 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Bear Lake County 11 kmFranklin County 44 kmCaribou County 47 kmLincoln County 59 kmBannock County 78 kmCache County 79 kmRich County 85 kmOneida County 97 kmBonneville County 114 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.1 (ml)
Depth
-2.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Bear Lake County, 11 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 985 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 47 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 320,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 230,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 20× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 47 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 42.3843, -111.3673. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Bear Lake County, ID 11 km (7 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Bear Lake County
Franklin County, ID 44 km (27 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Franklin County
Caribou County, ID 47 km (29 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Caribou County
Lincoln County, WY 59 km (37 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Bannock County, ID 78 km (49 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Bannock County
Cache County, UT 79 km (49 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

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

  1. 2.0 3 km N of Grace, Idaho
  2. 1.5 14 km E of Soda Springs, Idaho
  3. 1.6 22 km ENE of Soda Springs, Idaho
  4. 2.3 5 km ENE of Soda Springs, Idaho
  5. 1.9 18 km SE of Grace, Idaho
  6. 2.8 22 km NNE of Georgetown, Idaho
  7. 3.2 20 km W of Fairview, Wyoming
  8. 2.6 11 km ENE of Georgetown, Idaho
  9. 1.7 11 km NE of Franklin, Idaho
  10. 2.0 15 km SW of Georgetown, Idaho
  11. 2.3 3 km WNW of Montpelier, Idaho
  12. 3.0 11 km ENE of Georgetown, Idaho
  13. 1.6 15 km ENE of Bennington, Idaho
  14. 1.8 16 km SW of Grace, Idaho
  15. 1.7 8 km NW of Garden City, Utah

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 57,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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