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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

2 km ENE of Magna, Utah

· 11 km deep · released about 6.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Salt Lake County 14 kmDavis County 37 kmMorgan County 58 kmWeber County 63 kmUtah County 75 kmWasatch County 88 kmTooele County 93 kmSummit County 94 kmCache County 116 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Salt Lake County, 14 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2366 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 6.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 150× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 6.4 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 40.7222, -112.0712. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Salt Lake County, UT 14 km (9 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Salt Lake County
Davis County, UT 37 km (23 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Davis County
Morgan County, UT 58 km (36 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Morgan County
Weber County, UT 63 km (39 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Weber County
Utah County, UT 75 km (47 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Utah County
Wasatch County, UT 88 km (55 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Wasatch County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 5 km NE of Magna, Utah
  2. 1.8 5 km ENE of Magna, Utah
  3. 1.9 5 km NNW of West Valley City, Utah
  4. 1.8 4 km NE of Magna, Utah
  5. 1.5 5 km NE of Magna, Utah
  6. 1.8 9 km NNE of Magna, Utah
  7. 1.5 3 km S of Bluffdale, Utah
  8. 1.5 6 km NE of Magna, Utah
  9. 1.5 3 km NE of Magna, Utah
  10. 1.6 6 km NNE of Magna, Utah
  11. 1.6 6 km NNE of Magna, Utah
  12. 1.5 6 km NNE of Magna, Utah
  13. 1.9 6 km NNE of Magna, Utah
  14. 2.4 6 km NNE of Magna, Utah
  15. 1.8 4 km ENE of Magna, 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 5.7 on 2020-03-18 — it released about 1,700,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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