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M 2.6ml

6 km SE of Monroe, Utah

· 13 km deep · released about 280 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Sevier County 28 kmPiute County 30 kmSanpete County 96 kmGarfield County 101 kmWayne County 101 kmMillard County 101 kmBeaver County 106 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 2.6 (ml)
Depth
13 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Sevier County, 28 km NE
Nearest mapped fault
Annabella graben faults, 7 km from its surface trace — near is not the same as on
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3001 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 280 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 53,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 38,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 3.3× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 280 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 38.5967, -112.0637. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Sevier County, UT 28 km (17 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Sevier County
Piute County, UT 30 km (18 mi) N of here earthquakes near Piute County
Sanpete County, UT 96 km (60 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Sanpete County
Garfield County, UT 101 km (62 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Wayne County, UT 101 km (63 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Wayne County
Millard County, UT 101 km (63 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Millard County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 1 km NNW of Loa, Utah
  2. 1.8 21 km W of Marysvale, Utah
  3. 1.7 1 km WNW of Loa, Utah
  4. 2.6 1 km NW of Loa, Utah
  5. 1.5 9 km NNW of Marysvale, Utah
  6. 1.8 1 km WNW of Loa, Utah
  7. 1.8 3 km NW of Loa, Utah
  8. 1.7 1 km NNW of Loa, Utah
  9. 1.7 1 km WNW of Loa, Utah
  10. 2.6 1 km NW of Loa, Utah
  11. 1.6 1 km NW of Loa, Utah
  12. 1.8 1 km WNW of Loa, Utah
  13. 1.7 2 km W of Loa, Utah
  14. 3.1 2 km NNW of Loa, Utah
  15. 2.0 1 km WNW of Loa, 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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