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M 3.2ml

2 km WNW of Little America, Wyoming

· -2.7 km deep · released about 1,800 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Uinta County 64 kmDaggett County 81 kmSweetwater County 85 kmLincoln County 100 kmRich County 113 kmSummit County 118 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 3.2 (ml)
Depth
-2.7 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Uinta County, 64 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 40 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,800 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 8,200× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 5,800× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1,800 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.9× more

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 41.5565, -109.8890. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Uinta County, WY 64 km (39 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Uinta County
Daggett County, UT 81 km (50 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Daggett County
Sweetwater County, WY 85 km (53 mi) W of here earthquakes near Sweetwater County
Lincoln County, WY 100 km (62 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Rich County, UT 113 km (70 mi) E of here earthquakes near Rich County
Summit County, UT 118 km (73 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Summit County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.1 3 km NW of Little America, Wyoming
  2. 3.4 3 km NNW of Little America, Wyoming
  3. 3.8 22 km NE of Granger, Wyoming
  4. 3.0 2 km NNW of Little America, Wyoming
  5. 3.0 3 km NW of Little America, Wyoming
  6. 3.1 2 km NNW of Little America, Wyoming
  7. 3.3 2 km NW of Little America, Wyoming
  8. 3.1 2 km NNW of Little America, Wyoming
  9. 3.3 2 km NW of Little America, Wyoming
  10. 3.2 2 km NW of Little America, Wyoming
  11. 3.5 1 km NW of Little America, 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.

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