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M 2.1ml

Utah

· 9.8 km deep · released about 49 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Iron County 50 kmBeaver County 53 kmPiute County 64 kmMillard County 105 kmWashington County 109 kmSevier County 113 kmGarfield County 118 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.1 (ml)
Depth
9.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Iron County, 50 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2831 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 49 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 310,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 220,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 19× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 49 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 38.0567, -112.7648. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Iron County, UT 50 km (31 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Iron County
Beaver County, UT 53 km (33 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Beaver County
Piute County, UT 64 km (40 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Piute County
Millard County, UT 105 km (65 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Millard County
Washington County, UT 109 km (68 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Washington County
Sevier County, UT 113 km (70 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Sevier County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.5 16 km WNW of Enoch, Utah
  2. 1.6 16 km WNW of Enoch, Utah
  3. 1.8 15 km WNW of Enoch, Utah
  4. 1.8 15 km WNW of Enoch, Utah
  5. 2.4 16 km WNW of Enoch, Utah
  6. 1.7 15 km N of Panguitch, Utah
  7. 1.5 15 km N of Panguitch, Utah
  8. 2.5 15 km N of Panguitch, Utah
  9. 1.7 14 km N of Panguitch, UT
  10. 1.8 14 km N of Panguitch, Utah
  11. 1.6 4 km SW of Beaver, Utah
  12. 2.1 16 km WNW of Enoch, Utah
  13. 1.8 15 km WNW of Enoch, Utah
  14. 2.0 15 km WNW of Enoch, Utah
  15. 1.6 16 km WNW of Enoch, 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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