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M 1.7ml

12 km SSW of Jensen, Utah

· 11 km deep · released about 10 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Uintah County 19 kmDaggett County 71 kmDuchesne County 89 kmRio Blanco County 105 kmMoffat County 106 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Uintah County, 19 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2610 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 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 92× 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 40.2582, -109.3810. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Uintah County, UT 19 km (12 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Uintah County
Daggett County, UT 71 km (44 mi) S of here earthquakes near Daggett County
Duchesne County, UT 89 km (55 mi) E of here earthquakes near Duchesne County
Rio Blanco County, CO 105 km (65 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Rio Blanco County
Moffat County, CO 106 km (66 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Moffat County
Carbon County, UT 122 km (76 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Carbon County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.1 24 km NNE of Maeser, Utah
  2. 3.1 18 km NNE of Maeser, Utah
  3. 3.3 16 km NNE of Maeser, Utah
  4. 1.9 12 km SSW of Jensen, Utah
  5. 3.0 21 km NNE of Maeser, Utah
  6. 3.1 20 km NNE of Maeser, Utah
  7. 3.4 22 km NNE of Vernal, Utah
  8. 3.2 18 km NNE of Maeser, Utah
  9. 3.1 20 km NNE of Maeser, Utah
  10. 3.3 25 km NNE of Maeser, Utah
  11. 3.1 15 km NNE of Maeser, Utah
  12. 3.2 15 km NNE of Maeser, Utah
  13. 3.3 17 km NNE of Maeser, Utah
  14. 3.1 18 km NNE of Maeser, Utah
  15. 3.4 18 km NNE of Vernal, 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.

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