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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

25 km SE of Mammoth, Wyoming

· 9.6 km deep · released about 10 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Park County 71 kmPark County 77 kmTeton County 87 kmGallatin County 95 kmFremont County 106 kmSweet Grass County 116 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
9.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Park County, 71 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 93 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 10 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 1,500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 92× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 10 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 44.8270, -110.4523. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Park County, MT 71 km (44 mi) S of here earthquakes near Park County
Park County, WY 77 km (48 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Park County
Teton County, WY 87 km (54 mi) N of here earthquakes near Teton County
Gallatin County, MT 95 km (59 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Gallatin County
Fremont County, ID 106 km (66 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Fremont County
Sweet Grass County, MT 116 km (72 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Sweet Grass County

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

Aftershocks so far

19 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. 0.5 21 km ENE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  4. 0.9 41 km SSE of Mammoth, Wyoming
  5. 0.4 17 km SSW of Mammoth, Wyoming
  6. 1.6 22 km SSW of Mammoth, Wyoming
  7. 1.8 25 km SSW of Mammoth, Wyoming
  8. 1.6 19 km SSW of Mammoth, Wyoming
  9. 1.5 62 km ESE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  10. 1.6 49 km ESE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  11. 1.8 34 km S of Silver Gate, Montana
  12. 1.9 24 km S of Silver Gate, Montana
  13. 2.0 24 km SSW of Silver Gate, Montana
  14. 1.5 29 km ESE of West Yellowstone, Montana
  15. 2.0 37 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 6,200 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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