8 km SSW of Kanosh, Utah

2019-03-20 17:25 UTC · 8.7 km deep · released about 140 lb of TNT

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: 2019-03-20 17:25 UTC
Magnitude: M 2.4 (ml)
Depth: 8.7 km below the surface
Felt: 1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest: Piute County, 54 km SE
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS 2670 days ago · we first saw it 2670 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 140 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 110,000× the energy of this one
Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 78,000× the energy of this one
Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 6.9× the energy of this one
This earthquake M 2.4 about 140 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

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Epicentre 38.7293, -112.4835. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

Place	Distance	Direction
Piute County, UT	54 km (33 mi)	NW of here	earthquakes near Piute County
Sevier County, UT	58 km (36 mi)	W of here	earthquakes near Sevier County
Millard County, UT	62 km (38 mi)	ESE of here	earthquakes near Millard County
Beaver County, UT	78 km (48 mi)	ENE of here	earthquakes near Beaver County
Sanpete County, UT	106 km (66 mi)	SW of here	earthquakes near Sanpete County
Juab County, UT	113 km (70 mi)	SSE of here	earthquakes near Juab County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

1.9 3 km E of Marysvale, Utah 03:55 UTC
1.9 15 km WSW of Kanosh, Utah 18:59 UTC
1.6 13 km SW of Kanosh, Utah 19:37 UTC
1.9 19 km ENE of Milford, Utah 15:32 UTC
1.7 10 km S of Marysvale, Utah 21:38 UTC
1.8 5 km WNW of Sigurd, Utah 00:00 UTC
2.1 4 km ENE of Beaver, Utah 15:51 UTC
2.3 6 km SSE of Joseph, Utah 13:53 UTC
1.7 6 km SSE of Joseph, Utah 13:33 UTC
1.6 14 km SW of Kanosh, Utah 10:56 UTC
1.6 8 km WNW of Sigurd, Utah 00:46 UTC
1.6 6 km S of Joseph, Utah 13:00 UTC
2.0 25 km SSW of Kanosh, Utah 05:02 UTC
1.5 17 km NE of Milford, Utah 01:15 UTC
1.8 8 km ENE of Marysvale, Utah 03:35 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 03:43 UTC. QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.0 on 2019-02-20 — it released about 250 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

On USGS

The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

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