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quarry blast · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

70 km W of Hooper, Utah

· 0.0 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Box Elder County 53 kmDavis County 65 kmTooele County 77 kmWeber County 91 kmSalt Lake County 102 kmMorgan County 116 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 1.6 (ml)
Depth
0.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Box Elder County, 53 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1107 days ago

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

USGS catalogues this as quarry blast, not an earthquake.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 7.6 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.6 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 41.1526, -112.9587. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Box Elder County, UT 53 km (33 mi) S of here earthquakes near Box Elder County
Davis County, UT 65 km (40 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Davis County
Tooele County, UT 77 km (48 mi) N of here earthquakes near Tooele County
Weber County, UT 91 km (57 mi) W of here earthquakes near Weber County
Salt Lake County, UT 102 km (64 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Salt Lake County
Morgan County, UT 116 km (72 mi) W of here earthquakes near Morgan County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 47 km SW of Howell, Utah
  2. 1.7 60 km W of Hooper, Utah
  3. 1.9 62 km W of Hooper, Utah
  4. 1.7 66 km NW of Grantsville, Utah
  5. 1.8 65 km W of Hooper, Utah
  6. 1.8 63 km NW of Grantsville, Utah
  7. 1.8 72 km W of Hooper, Utah
  8. 1.8 67 km W of Hooper, Utah
  9. 1.6 64 km W of Hooper, Utah
  10. 2.0 Utah
  11. 1.9 66 km NW of Grantsville, Utah
  12. 2.0 Utah

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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