Earthquake near Price, UT

USGS: 14 km W of Hiawatha, Utah

92 km (57 mi) SSE of Provo, UT

8:42 pm MST, Mar 9, 2019 · 2019-03-10 03:42 UTC · 1.8 km deep · released about 6.2 lb of TNT

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When: 8:42 pm MST on 9 March 2019 (2019-03-10 03:42 UTC)
Where: 33 km (21 mi) WSW of Price, UT · earthquakes near Price
Magnitude: M 1.5 (md)
Depth: 1.8 km below the surface
Felt: no reports yet
Nearest: Sanpete County, 37 km WSW
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

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

A magnitude 1.5 earthquake was recorded 33 km (21 mi) WSW of Price, UT, at 8:42 pm MST on 9 March 2019 (03:42 UTC). This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

Earthquakes near other towns within 30 km: Mount Pleasant, Fairview, Huntington, Spring City.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 6.2 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.

Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,500,000× the energy of this one
Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,700,000× the energy of this one
Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 150× the energy of this one
This earthquake M 1.5 about 6.2 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:

5.2 13 km ESE of Castle Dale, Utah · 47 km SSE of this epicentre Aug 14, 1988

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

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Nearby places

Place	Distance	Direction from the epicentre
Sanpete County, UT	37 km (23 mi)	WSW	earthquakes near Sanpete County
Carbon County, UT	54 km (34 mi)	ENE	earthquakes near Carbon County
Emery County, UT	67 km (42 mi)	SE	earthquakes near Emery County
Utah County, UT	81 km (50 mi)	NNW	earthquakes near Utah County
Wasatch County, UT	93 km (58 mi)	N	earthquakes near Wasatch County
Sevier County, UT	100 km (62 mi)	SSW	earthquakes near Sevier County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

1.6 5 km E of Mount Pleasant, Utah 06:10 UTC
1.8 9 km WNW of Hiawatha, Utah 03:30 UTC
2.1 10 km SSW of Hiawatha, Utah 02:40 UTC
1.6 7 km E of Kenilworth, Utah 14:23 UTC
1.9 11 km SSW of Hiawatha, Utah 09:05 UTC
1.6 11 km SSW of Hiawatha, Utah 04:14 UTC
1.8 11 km SSW of Hiawatha, Utah 11:14 UTC
1.6 9 km NW of Helper, Utah 22:57 UTC
1.9 Utah 04:40 UTC
1.9 11 km SSW of Hiawatha, Utah 03:15 UTC
1.6 10 km SSW of Hiawatha, Utah 19:49 UTC
1.7 11 km SSW of Hiawatha, Utah 17:08 UTC
1.6 17 km ESE of Spring City, Utah 03:40 UTC
1.8 3 km NNW of Kenilworth, Utah 07:15 UTC
1.6 4 km N of Kenilworth, Utah 06:58 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 07:29 UTC. 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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