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M 1.6ml

Earthquake near Huntington, UT

USGS: 10 km SSW of Hiawatha, Utah

7:46 pm MST, Mar 9, 2019 · · 1.1 km deep · released about 6.4 lb of TNT

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When
7:46 pm MST on 9 March 2019 ()
Where
13 km (8 mi) NW of Huntington, UT · earthquakes near Huntington
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
1.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Sanpete County, 44 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2763 days ago

A magnitude 1.6 earthquake was recorded 13 km (8 mi) NW of Huntington, UT, at 7:46 pm MST on 9 March 2019 (02:46 UTC). This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

Earthquakes near other towns within 30 km: Orangeville, Castle Dale.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 6.4 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 2,400,000× 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 1.6 about 6.4 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.

For this area

No earthquake of M4 or more has been recorded within 50 km since our catalogue begins in 2016.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists one earthquake of M5 or more within 50 km:

  1. 5.2 13 km ESE of Castle Dale, Utah · 33 km SSE of this epicentre

Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.

Where

Epicentre 39.4042, -111.0708. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection from the epicentre
Sanpete County, UT 44 km (27 mi) W earthquakes near Sanpete County
Carbon County, UT 51 km (32 mi) NE earthquakes near Carbon County
Emery County, UT 53 km (33 mi) SE earthquakes near Emery County
Utah County, UT 95 km (59 mi) NNW earthquakes near Utah County
Sevier County, UT 97 km (60 mi) SW earthquakes near Sevier County
Wasatch County, UT 104 km (64 mi) N earthquakes near Wasatch County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 6 km W of Clear Creek, Utah
  2. 3.2 14 km SE of Clawson, Utah
  3. 1.6 9 km WNW of Clear Creek, Utah
  4. 2.1 12 km W of Clear Creek, Utah
  5. 1.7 16 km SE of Clawson, Utah
  6. 2.1 15 km SE of Clawson, Utah
  7. 1.6 16 km SE of Clawson, Utah
  8. 2.1 14 km SE of Clawson, Utah
  9. 1.9 Utah
  10. 1.5 13 km ESE of Clawson, Utah
  11. 1.8 13 km SE of Clawson, Utah
  12. 1.8 16 km SE of Clawson, Utah
  13. 2.1 16 km SE of Clawson, Utah
  14. 1.8 16 km SE of Clawson, Utah
  15. 2.0 16 km SE of Clawson, 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.

On USGS

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