28 km WNW of Milford, Utah

2019-03-28 22:59 UTC · 5.1 km deep · released about 180 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: 2019-03-28 22:59 UTC
Magnitude: M 2.5 (ml)
Depth: 5.1 km below the surface
Felt: no reports yet
Nearest: Beaver County, 15 km SSE
Nearest mapped fault: San Francisco Mountains (west side) fault, under 1 km from its surface trace — near is not the same as on
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS 1972 days ago · we first saw it 1972 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 180 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 86,000× the energy of this one
Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 61,000× the energy of this one
Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 5.4× the energy of this one
This earthquake M 2.5 about 180 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 38.4715, -113.3280. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

Place	Distance	Direction
Beaver County, UT	15 km (9 mi)	NNW of here	earthquakes near Beaver County
Millard County, UT	57 km (35 mi)	SSW of here	earthquakes near Millard County
Iron County, UT	63 km (39 mi)	N of here	earthquakes near Iron County
Piute County, UT	106 km (66 mi)	W of here	earthquakes near Piute County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

2.1 9 km SW of Milford, Utah 21:02 UTC
1.8 9 km SW of Milford, Utah 11:57 UTC
2.4 10 km SW of Milford, Utah 23:50 UTC
1.8 Utah 19:03 UTC
1.9 9 km WSW of Milford, Utah 18:12 UTC
2.1 8 km SW of Milford, Utah 18:06 UTC
2.6 10 km SW of Milford, Utah 12:57 UTC
1.9 10 km SW of Milford, Utah 10:50 UTC
2.1 10 km SSW of Milford, Utah 08:06 UTC
1.5 8 km SW of Milford, Utah 07:06 UTC
2.5 10 km SW of Milford, Utah 06:12 UTC
2.0 9 km SW of Milford, Utah 01:44 UTC
2.0 9 km SW of Milford, Utah 01:44 UTC
2.3 10 km SW of Milford, Utah 01:24 UTC
1.6 8 km SSW of Milford, Utah 19:31 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 03:09 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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