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M 1.7md

16 km WNW of Veyo, Utah

· 0.2 km deep · released about 10 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Washington County 36 kmIron County 75 kmLincoln County 92 kmBeaver County 120 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 1.7 (md)
Depth
0.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Washington County, 36 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2746 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 10 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,100,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 95× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 10 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 37.4005, -113.8590. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Washington County, UT 36 km (23 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Washington County
Iron County, UT 75 km (46 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Iron County
Lincoln County, NV 92 km (57 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Beaver County, UT 120 km (74 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Beaver County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 34 km WNW of Veyo, Utah
  2. 1.9 38 km SSE of Caliente, Nevada
  3. 2.6 35 km SSE of Caliente, Nevada
  4. 2.9 33 km SSE of Caliente, Nevada
  5. 1.5 Nevada
  6. 1.8 35 km SSE of Caliente, Nevada
  7. 1.8 33 km SSE of Caliente, Nevada
  8. 1.5 Nevada
  9. 2.0 35 km SSE of Caliente, Nevada
  10. 1.5 9 km ESE of Pine Valley, Utah
  11. 1.6 11 km WNW of Veyo, Utah
  12. 1.8 14 km WSW of Enterprise, Utah
  13. 1.6 9 km S of Saint George, Utah
  14. 1.5 8 km S of Saint George, Utah
  15. 2.4 4 km SW of Beryl Junction, 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.2 on 2016-01-15 — it released about 6,900 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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