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M 1.6ml

69 km ESE of West Yellowstone, Montana

· 8.7 km deep · released about 9 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Teton County 38 kmPark County 59 kmFremont County 94 kmTeton County 99 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
8.7 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Teton County, 38 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 839 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 9 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 110× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 9 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 44.3822, -110.3242. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Teton County, WY 38 km (24 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Teton County
Park County, WY 59 km (37 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Park County
Fremont County, ID 94 km (58 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Fremont County
Teton County, ID 99 km (62 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Teton County
Madison County, ID 125 km (78 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Madison County
Carbon County, MT 139 km (86 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Carbon County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 55 km SE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  2. 2.1 56 km SE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  3. 2.4 56 km SE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  4. 2.1 55 km SE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  5. 2.3 55 km SE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  6. 2.6 70 km NNE of Kelly, Wyoming
  7. 1.9 51 km SE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  8. 1.6 36 km S of Silver Gate, Montana
  9. 1.9 46 km SSE of Mammoth, Wyoming
  10. 1.7 56 km ENE of Warm River, Idaho
  11. 1.7 38 km S of Silver Gate, Montana
  12. 2.0 35 km S of Silver Gate, Montana
  13. 1.8 33 km ESE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  14. 1.8 55 km SE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  15. 2.0 49 km NNE of Kelly, 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 7,200 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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