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M 2.2ml

Earthquake near Ogden, UT

USGS: 8 km NE of Huntsville, Utah

63 km (39 mi) NNE of Salt Lake City, UT · 24 km (15 mi) ENE of Ogden, UT

1:39 am MDT, May 20, 2019 · · 11 km deep · released about 58 lb of TNT

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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
1:39 am MDT on 20 May 2019 ()
Where
24 km (15 mi) ENE of Ogden, UT · earthquakes near Ogden
Magnitude
M 2.2 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Weber County, 15 km WSW
Nearest mapped fault
East Cache fault, 15 km from its surface trace — near is not the same as on
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2692 days ago

A magnitude 2.2 earthquake was recorded 24 km (15 mi) ENE of Ogden, UT, at 1:39 am MDT on 20 May 2019 (07:39 UTC). This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

Earthquakes near other towns within 30 km: Wolf Creek, Liberty, Mountain Green, North Ogden, Pleasant View, Harrisville.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 58 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 260,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 16× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.2 about 58 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. 5.5 26 km E of Avon, Utah · 27 km NE 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 41.3187, -111.7118. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection from the epicentre
Weber County, UT 15 km (9 mi) WSW earthquakes near Weber County
Morgan County, UT 28 km (17 mi) SSE earthquakes near Morgan County
Cache County, UT 46 km (29 mi) N earthquakes near Cache County
Davis County, UT 52 km (32 mi) SW earthquakes near Davis County
Rich County, UT 52 km (32 mi) NE earthquakes near Rich County
Salt Lake County, UT 75 km (46 mi) SSW earthquakes near Salt Lake 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. 1.7 8 km E of Enterprise, Utah
  2. 2.4 6 km SW of Corinne, Utah
  3. 1.6 4 km SE of Avon, Utah
  4. 1.6 12 km ENE of Paradise, Utah
  5. 1.8 4 km NNW of Henefer, Utah
  6. 1.6 2 km WNW of West Point, Utah
  7. 2.2 4 km E of Huntsville, Utah
  8. 1.9 4 km E of Huntsville, Utah
  9. 1.7 12 km ESE of Millville, Utah
  10. 1.5 3 km ENE of Huntsville, Utah
  11. 1.6 12 km ENE of Avon, Utah
  12. 2.3 Utah
  13. 2.0 9 km NE of Wolf Creek, Utah
  14. 1.8 10 km NE of Wolf Creek, Utah
  15. 1.6 10 km NE of Wolf Creek, 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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