53 km WNW of Dugway, Utah

2020-06-23 20:49 UTC · 11 km deep · released about 190 lb of TNT

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: 2020-06-23 20:49 UTC
Magnitude: M 2.5 (ml)
Depth: 11 km below the surface
Felt: no reports yet
Nearest: Tooele County, 13 km E
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS 1971 days ago · we first saw it 1971 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 190 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 80,000× the energy of this one
Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 57,000× the energy of this one
Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 5.1× the energy of this one
This earthquake M 2.5 about 190 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

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Epicentre 40.4837, -113.2727. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

Place	Distance	Direction
Tooele County, UT	13 km (8 mi)	W of here	earthquakes near Tooele County
Juab County, UT	95 km (59 mi)	NNW of here	earthquakes near Juab County
Davis County, UT	109 km (68 mi)	SW of here	earthquakes near Davis County
Salt Lake County, UT	116 km (72 mi)	W of here	earthquakes near Salt Lake County
Weber County, UT	146 km (91 mi)	SW of here	earthquakes near Weber County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

1.9 49 km WSW of Dugway, Utah 03:04 UTC
2.1 49 km WSW of Dugway, Utah 07:40 UTC
2.5 57 km WNW of Dugway, Utah 18:52 UTC
1.9 55 km SE of Wendover, Utah 04:33 UTC
2.1 62 km ENE of Wendover, Utah 09:27 UTC
2.5 65 km ENE of Wendover, Utah 06:16 UTC
1.9 54 km WNW of Dugway, Utah 21:13 UTC
1.8 51 km SE of Wendover, Utah 17:41 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 07:04 UTC. 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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ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

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