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M 1.8ml

25 km WSW of Circleville, Utah

· 3.2 km deep · released about 13 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Piute County 46 kmIron County 71 kmBeaver County 72 kmGarfield County 96 kmSevier County 99 kmKane County 106 kmMillard County 114 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 1.8 (ml)
Depth
3.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Piute County, 46 km NE
Nearest mapped fault
Beaver Basin faults, 18 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 3030 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 13 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 840,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 75× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 13 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 38.0492, -112.5115. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Piute County, UT 46 km (29 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Piute County
Iron County, UT 71 km (44 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Iron County
Beaver County, UT 72 km (45 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Beaver County
Garfield County, UT 96 km (60 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Sevier County, UT 99 km (61 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Sevier County
Kane County, UT 106 km (66 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Kane County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 4 km W of Circleville, Utah
  2. 2.1 9 km WNW of Panguitch, Utah
  3. 1.5 5 km WSW of Circleville, Utah
  4. 1.6 8 km SW of Circleville, Utah
  5. 1.7 7 km WSW of Circleville, Utah
  6. 1.6 Utah
  7. 1.8 19 km SE of Minersville, Utah
  8. 2.2 18 km SE of Minersville, Utah
  9. 3.0 18 km SE of Minersville, Utah
  10. 2.0 10 km NNE of Panguitch, Utah
  11. 1.5 9 km NNW of Panguitch, Utah
  12. 1.8 20 km NNE of Paragonah, Utah
  13. 1.8 0 km SE of Beaver, Utah
  14. 2.3 19 km N of Paragonah, Utah
  15. 2.1 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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