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M 2.2md

29 km WSW of Kanosh, Utah

· 15 km deep · released about 69 lb of TNT

10 km30 km60 km120 km N Millard County 45 kmBeaver County 57 kmPiute County 67 kmSevier County 81 kmIron County 100 kmJuab County 113 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 2.2 (md)
Depth
15 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Millard County, 45 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2595 days ago

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

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 69 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 220,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 150,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 14× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.2 about 69 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 38.6945, -112.7432. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Millard County, UT 45 km (28 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Millard County
Beaver County, UT 57 km (35 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Beaver County
Piute County, UT 67 km (41 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Piute County
Sevier County, UT 81 km (50 mi) W of here earthquakes near Sevier County
Iron County, UT 100 km (62 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Iron County
Juab County, UT 113 km (70 mi) S of here earthquakes near Juab County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 9 km NNW of Joseph, Utah
  2. 2.4 26 km SSW of Kanosh, Utah
  3. 1.6 19 km ENE of Milford, Utah
  4. 1.8 19 km SW of Kanosh, Utah
  5. 1.5 18 km SW of Kanosh, Utah
  6. 1.6 10 km NNE of Minersville, Utah
  7. 1.8 19 km SW of Marysvale, Utah
  8. 1.5 25 km SSW of Kanosh, Utah
  9. 1.6 19 km ENE of Milford, Utah
  10. 2.5 20 km ENE of Milford, Utah
  11. 2.0 28 km SW of Kanosh, Utah
  12. 1.9 15 km WSW of Kanosh, Utah
  13. 2.3 9 km NNE of Minersville, Utah
  14. 1.7 9 km NNE of Minersville, Utah
  15. 2.2 10 km NNE of Minersville, 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.1 on 2019-04-14 — it released about 540 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

On USGS

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