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M 2.1ml

16 km SSE of Snowville, Utah

· 7.1 km deep · released about 37 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Box Elder County 40 kmOneida County 42 kmCache County 76 kmFranklin County 79 kmWeber County 89 kmDavis County 95 kmCassia County 96 kmPower County 99 kmBannock County 103 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.1 (ml)
Depth
7.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Box Elder County, 40 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2319 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 37 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 410,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 290,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 26× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 37 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 41.8192, -112.6510. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Box Elder County, UT 40 km (25 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Box Elder County
Oneida County, ID 42 km (26 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Oneida County
Cache County, UT 76 km (47 mi) W of here earthquakes near Cache County
Franklin County, ID 79 km (49 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Franklin County
Weber County, UT 89 km (55 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Weber County
Davis County, UT 95 km (59 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Davis 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 5 km E of Howell, Utah
  2. 1.5 5 km E of Howell, Utah
  3. 2.4 5 km E of Howell, Utah
  4. 1.7 17 km W of Portage, Utah
  5. 2.3 18 km W of Portage, Utah
  6. 1.5 5 km SSE of Snowville, Utah
  7. 1.7 7 km SE of Snowville, Utah
  8. 1.8 5 km SE of Snowville, Utah
  9. 2.1 6 km SE of Snowville, Utah
  10. 2.2 5 km SE of Snowville, Utah
  11. 2.1 5 km SSE of Snowville, Utah
  12. 1.7 5 km SE of Snowville, Utah
  13. 2.0 17 km S of Snowville, Utah
  14. 2.0 16 km S of Snowville, Utah
  15. 2.3 5 km SSW of Thatcher, 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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