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M 2.6ml

15 km E of Snowville, Utah

· 6.3 km deep · released about 270 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Oneida County 24 kmBox Elder County 59 kmFranklin County 62 kmCache County 69 kmBannock County 84 kmPower County 85 kmWeber County 94 kmCassia County 98 kmBear Lake County 105 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
6.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Oneida County, 24 km N
Nearest mapped fault
North Promontory fault, 8 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 1867 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 270 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 57,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 40,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 3.6× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 270 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 41.9660, -112.5212. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Oneida County, ID 24 km (15 mi) S of here earthquakes near Oneida County
Box Elder County, UT 59 km (37 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Box Elder County
Franklin County, ID 62 km (39 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Franklin County
Cache County, UT 69 km (43 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Cache County
Bannock County, ID 84 km (52 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Bannock County
Power County, ID 85 km (53 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Power County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.1 7 km E of Howell, UT
  2. 2.2 5 km ENE of Howell, Utah
  3. 1.7 4 km ENE of Howell, Utah
  4. 1.6 4 km NE of Howell, Utah
  5. 1.5 5 km ENE of Howell, Utah
  6. 1.9 5 km NE of Howell, Utah
  7. 3.9 5 km ENE of Howell, Utah
  8. 1.8 10 km W of Snowville, Utah
  9. 2.2 10 km WNW of Howell, Utah
  10. 1.7 11 km S of Snowville, Utah
  11. 1.7 8 km W of Plymouth, Utah
  12. 2.6 9 km NE of Howell, Utah
  13. 2.0 10 km WSW of Portage, Utah
  14. 1.5 27 km SSE of Rockland, Idaho
  15. 2.8 13 km S of Snowville, 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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