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M 1.6md
Earthquake near Milford, UT
Yes: an earthquake was likely felt in Milford in the last 24 hours. M 1.9, 13 km (8 mi) NE of Milford, at 12:14 am MST on 13 November 2026 (07:14 UTC); the estimated shaking in Milford was intensity II (weak). Every earthquake near Milford
This page: a magnitude 1.6 earthquake was recorded 20 km (12 mi) east-northeast of Milford, UT, at 5:36 pm MDT on 17 April 2020 (23:36 UTC), 5.7 km deep.
USGS: 19 km ENE of Milford, Utah
- When
- 5:36 pm MDT on 17 April 2020 ()
- Where
- 20 km (12 mi) east-northeast of Milford, UT · earthquakes near Milford
- Magnitude
- M 1.6 (md)
- Depth
- 5.7 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Beaver County, 40 km WSW
- Nearest mapped fault
- Beaver Basin faults, 8 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 2398 days ago
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This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.
At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 9 km (6 mi) from the epicentre. In Milford, 20 km away, the estimate is intensity II (weak). Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.
Earthquakes near other towns within 30 km: Beaver.
How big was it?
This earthquake released about 7.3 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,100,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,500,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.3 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
The largest earthquake within 50 km since 2016 was M 4.1 on 2019-04-14 — about 5,100 times the energy of this one.
Before 2016, the USGS record lists one earthquake of M5 or more within 50 km:
- 6.6 Near Marysvale, Utah · 35 km E 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 38.4713, -112.8047. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction from the epicentre | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beaver County, UT | 40 km (25 mi) | WSW | earthquakes near Beaver County |
| Piute County, UT | 61 km (38 mi) | ESE | earthquakes near Piute County |
| Millard County, UT | 61 km (38 mi) | NNW | earthquakes near Millard County |
| Iron County, UT | 76 km (47 mi) | SW | earthquakes near Iron County |
| Sevier County, UT | 92 km (57 mi) | ENE | earthquakes near Sevier County |
| Garfield County, UT | 138 km (86 mi) | ESE | earthquakes near Garfield County |
Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.
Aftershocks so far
30 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
- 1.7 10 km SSW of Milford, Utah
- 1.5 9 km SSW of Milford, Utah
- 1.5 9 km SSW of Milford, Utah
- 1.8 9 km SW of Milford, Utah
- 1.7 7 km NW of Circleville, Utah
- 1.8 7 km SW of Marysvale, Utah
- 2.1 19 km SSE of Minersville, Utah
- 1.5 20 km ENE of Milford, Utah
- 2.5 20 km N of Paragonah, Utah
- 1.6 9 km WSW of Beaver, Utah
- 1.6 9 km NNE of Beaver, Utah
- 1.6 12 km WSW of Circleville, Utah
- 2.7 9 km NW of Circleville, Utah
- 2.3 23.9 km NNE of Kanosh, UT
- 1.5 5.4 km WNW of Minersville, UT
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
- The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
- Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
- ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one
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