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explosion · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.1md

12 km N of Priest River, Idaho

· -0.8 km deep · released about 46 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Bonner County 22 kmPend Oreille County 36 kmBoundary County 61 kmStevens County 70 kmKootenai County 71 kmSpokane County 83 kmLincoln County 112 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.1 (md)
Depth
-0.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Bonner County, 22 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 604 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

USGS catalogues this as explosion, not an earthquake.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 46 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 330,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 230,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 21× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 46 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 48.2945, -116.9238. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Bonner County, ID 22 km (14 mi) W of here earthquakes near Bonner County
Pend Oreille County, WA 36 km (22 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Pend Oreille County
Boundary County, ID 61 km (38 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Boundary County
Stevens County, WA 70 km (43 mi) E of here earthquakes near Stevens County
Kootenai County, ID 71 km (44 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Kootenai County
Spokane County, WA 83 km (52 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Spokane County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 2 km NE of Dover, Idaho
  2. 2.2 8 km WNW of Dover, Idaho
  3. 1.7 9 km WSW of Newport, Washington
  4. 1.8 6 km SSW of Athol, Idaho
  5. 1.6 13 km NNW of Athol, Idaho
  6. 1.9 6 km NNW of Priest River, Idaho
  7. 2.1 12 km NNW of Kootenai, Idaho
  8. 1.6 11 km NNW of Kootenai, Idaho
  9. 1.6 18 km N of Kootenai, Idaho
  10. 2.2 8 km NW of Ponderay, Idaho
  11. 2.1 8 km WNW of Dover, Idaho
  12. 1.8 9 km NNW of Ponderay, Idaho
  13. 1.8 20 km NE of Deer Park, Washington

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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