28 km SSW of Jensen, Utah

2020-09-25 22:38 UTC · 8.2 km deep · released about 230 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: 2020-09-25 22:38 UTC
Magnitude: M 2.6 (md)
Depth: 8.2 km below the surface
Felt: no reports yet
Nearest: Uintah County, 4 km WSW
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS 2122 days ago · we first saw it 2122 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 230 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 65,000× the energy of this one
Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 46,000× the energy of this one
Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4.1× the energy of this one
This earthquake M 2.6 about 230 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 40.1417, -109.4772. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

Place	Distance	Direction
Uintah County, UT	4 km (2 mi)	ENE of here	earthquakes near Uintah County
Duchesne County, UT	83 km (51 mi)	E of here	earthquakes near Duchesne County
Daggett County, UT	83 km (52 mi)	S of here	earthquakes near Daggett County
Carbon County, UT	108 km (67 mi)	ENE of here	earthquakes near Carbon County
Rio Blanco County, CO	110 km (69 mi)	W of here	earthquakes near Rio Blanco County
Moffat County, CO	119 km (74 mi)	WSW of here	earthquakes near Moffat County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

1.9 12 km SSW of Jensen, Utah 14:16 UTC
2.1 28 km SSW of Bonanza, Utah 21:31 UTC
4.1 10 km W of Maeser, Utah 23:57 UTC
1.8 14 km WNW of Bonanza, Utah 10:06 UTC
2.0 37 km SSW of Bonanza, Utah 05:24 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 01:37 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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