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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5md

3 km ENE of Malad City, Idaho

· 0.5 km deep · released about 6.2 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Oneida County 25 kmFranklin County 32 kmBannock County 54 kmCache County 65 kmBear Lake County 74 kmPower County 75 kmCaribou County 85 kmBox Elder County 95 kmRich County 103 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (md)
Depth
0.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Oneida County, 25 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 102 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 6.2 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 150× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 6.2 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 42.2035, -112.2153. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Oneida County, ID 25 km (16 mi) E of here earthquakes near Oneida County
Franklin County, ID 32 km (20 mi) W of here earthquakes near Franklin County
Bannock County, ID 54 km (34 mi) S of here earthquakes near Bannock County
Cache County, UT 65 km (40 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Cache County
Bear Lake County, ID 74 km (46 mi) W of here earthquakes near Bear Lake County
Power County, ID 75 km (47 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Power County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 1 km SE of Cornish, Utah
  2. 1.7 1 km SE of Cornish, Utah
  3. 2.0 12 km NNE of Howell, Utah
  4. 1.6 2 km E of Malad City, Idaho
  5. 2.0 2 km ESE of Malad City, Idaho
  6. 1.7 4 km NE of Malad City, Idaho
  7. 2.4 2 km E of Malad City, 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.

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