Fault · Utah
Mineral Mountains (west side) faults
Updated , with the latest earthquake of M2.5 or more within 10 km of the trace: M 2.7, 14 km NE of Milford, Utah.
In plain English
The two sides move less than 0.2 mm a year — under 2 cm a century. Slow faults can still produce large earthquakes, just rarely.
Its most recent surface rupture is younger than 15,000 years.
This week vs. its last ten years
Too quiet to rank: fewer than half a year's worth of weeks with any M1.5+ quake within 5 km, in ten years. A single quake here would read as "unusual", so we do not score it.
Computed from the USGS catalogue · a description of the past, not a forecast · method
Every year since 2016
Earthquakes of M2.5+ with an epicentre within 10 km of the mapped trace. Near is not the same as on: some will have slipped on neighbouring faults.
Most recent near it
- M 2.7 14 km NE of Milford, Utah
2026-11-07 · 7 km from the trace - M 3.1 13 km NE of Milford, Utah
2026-11-07 · 6 km from the trace - M 2.7 14 km NE of Milford, Utah
2026-11-07 · 7 km from the trace - M 2.6 14 km NE of Milford, Utah
2025-12-09 · 10 km from the trace - M 2.8 15 km NE of Milford, Utah
2025-03-03 · 9 km from the trace - M 2.6 17 km NE of Milford, Utah
2023-10-21 · 9 km from the trace
Neighbouring faults
- Beaver Basin faults 11 km away
- Parowan Valley faults 25 km away
- Enoch graben faults 30 km away
- San Francisco Mountains (west side) fault 31 km away
- Cricket Mountains (west side) fault 35 km away
- Cedar City-Parowan monocline (and faults) 40 km away
Fault trace, slip rate and age: USGS Quaternary Fault and Fold Database (public domain), simplified for the web. Earthquakes: USGS ComCat. QuakeIndex does not forecast earthquakes; a fault's history describes the past. For early warning use ShakeAlert.