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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

22 km ENE of Soda Springs, Idaho

· 9.2 km deep · released about 8.7 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Caribou County 16 kmBear Lake County 51 kmBannock County 71 kmFranklin County 74 kmBonneville County 75 kmLincoln County 80 kmBingham County 99 kmTeton County 113 kmOneida County 114 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (md)
Depth
9.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Caribou County, 16 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 353 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 8.7 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 8.7 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 42.7468, -111.3613. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Caribou County, ID 16 km (10 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Caribou County
Bear Lake County, ID 51 km (32 mi) N of here earthquakes near Bear Lake County
Bannock County, ID 71 km (44 mi) E of here earthquakes near Bannock County
Franklin County, ID 74 km (46 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Franklin County
Bonneville County, ID 75 km (47 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Bonneville County
Lincoln County, WY 80 km (50 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Lincoln County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 11 km E of Bancroft, Idaho
  2. 2.9 23 km WNW of Auburn, Wyoming
  3. 1.6 9 km NW of Georgetown, Idaho
  4. 1.9 6 km W of Bennington, Idaho
  5. 1.8 7 km WSW of Bennington, Idaho
  6. 1.9 11 km NW of Georgetown, Idaho
  7. 1.9 9 km NW of Georgetown, Idaho
  8. 2.2 7 km WNW of Bennington, Idaho
  9. 1.5 6 km WSW of Bennington, Idaho
  10. 2.0 6 km W of Bennington, Idaho
  11. 3.2 6 km WSW of Bennington, Idaho
  12. 1.9 6 km WSW of Bennington, Idaho
  13. 3.0 6 km WSW of Bennington, Idaho
  14. 2.3 6 km W of Bennington, Idaho
  15. 1.7 5 km SSW of Georgetown, Idaho

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 310,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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