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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7md

10 km NNE of Cooke City, Montana

· 16 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Park County 63 kmCarbon County 70 kmStillwater County 73 kmPark County 73 kmSweet Grass County 78 kmGallatin County 108 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 (md)
Depth
16 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Park County, 63 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 674 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 1,300,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 930,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 83× 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 45.1127, -109.9022. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Park County, MT 63 km (39 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Park County
Carbon County, MT 70 km (43 mi) W of here earthquakes near Carbon County
Stillwater County, MT 73 km (45 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Stillwater County
Park County, WY 73 km (45 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Park County
Sweet Grass County, MT 78 km (48 mi) S of here earthquakes near Sweet Grass County
Gallatin County, MT 108 km (67 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Gallatin County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.2 21 km ESE of Pray, Montana
  2. 1.5 37 km S of Silver Gate, Montana
  3. 1.8 34 km S of Silver Gate, Montana
  4. 1.9 24 km S of Silver Gate, Montana
  5. 2.0 24 km SSW of Silver Gate, Montana
  6. 2.0 37 km S of Silver Gate, Montana
  7. 2.0 36 km S of Silver Gate, Montana
  8. 1.7 32 km SW of Silver Gate, Montana
  9. 1.5 32 km SW of Silver Gate, Montana
  10. 1.6 32 km SW of Silver Gate, Montana
  11. 2.4 37 km S of Silver Gate, Montana
  12. 2.0 34 km S of Silver Gate, Montana
  13. 1.8 36 km S of Silver Gate, Montana
  14. 1.6 31 km ESE of Mammoth, Wyoming
  15. 1.6 36 km S of Silver Gate, 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 4.2 on 2022-05-11 — it released about 5,600 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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