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M 1.6md

Utah

· 11 km deep · released about 9 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Juab County 48 kmSanpete County 63 kmUtah County 85 kmSevier County 96 kmMillard County 96 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (md)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Juab County, 48 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3607 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 9 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 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 110× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 9 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 39.5230, -112.2865. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Juab County, UT 48 km (30 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Juab County
Sanpete County, UT 63 km (39 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Sanpete County
Utah County, UT 85 km (53 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Utah County
Sevier County, UT 96 km (59 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Sevier County
Millard County, UT 96 km (60 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Millard County
Tooele County, UT 127 km (79 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Tooele County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 Utah
  2. 1.5 19 km NE of Scipio, Utah
  3. 2.3 17 km SW of Levan, Utah
  4. 1.6 18 km SW of Levan, Utah
  5. 2.3 7 km WNW of Fayette, Utah
  6. 1.6 22 km S of Eureka, Utah
  7. 1.7 25 km NW of Sutherland, Utah
  8. 1.9 16 km S of Levan, Utah
  9. 1.7 21 km WNW of Levan, Utah
  10. 1.9 12 km ENE of Scipio, Utah
  11. 1.8 11 km NE of Scipio, Utah
  12. 2.5 11 km NW of Fayette, Utah
  13. 2.0 12 km NE of Scipio, Utah
  14. 2.4 9 km NE of Scipio, Utah
  15. 1.8 8 km NW of Fayette, 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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