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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5ml

8 km S of Joseph, Utah

· -0.6 km deep · released about 6.2 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Piute County 25 kmSevier County 41 kmMillard County 91 kmBeaver County 92 kmGarfield County 104 kmSanpete County 107 kmWayne County 112 kmIron County 119 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
-0.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Piute County, 25 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1676 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 6.2 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 150× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 6.2 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 38.5505, -112.2168. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Piute County, UT 25 km (16 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Piute County
Sevier County, UT 41 km (26 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Sevier County
Millard County, UT 91 km (57 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Millard County
Beaver County, UT 92 km (57 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Beaver County
Garfield County, UT 104 km (65 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Sanpete County, UT 107 km (66 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Sanpete County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 5 km WSW of Circleville, Utah
  2. 1.8 5 km ESE of Beaver, Utah
  3. 1.5 4 km NE of Beaver, Utah
  4. 1.8 24 km SSW of Kanosh, Utah
  5. 1.8 27 km SW of Kanosh, Utah
  6. 2.1 27 km SW of Kanosh, Utah
  7. 2.1 25 km SW of Kanosh, Utah
  8. 2.5 2 km NNW of Circleville, Utah
  9. 1.9 8 km WSW of Circleville, Utah
  10. 2.0 Utah
  11. 2.0 6 km W of Circleville, Utah
  12. 1.5 27 km SSW of Kanosh, Utah
  13. 1.5 27 km SW of Kanosh, Utah
  14. 2.1 20 km SSW of Kanosh, Utah
  15. 1.6 21 km SSW of Kanosh, 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 4.0 on 2019-02-20 — it released about 5,600 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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