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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.2ml

5 km W of Circleville, Utah

· 3.6 km deep · released about 58 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Piute County 25 kmSevier County 78 kmBeaver County 82 kmGarfield County 86 kmIron County 90 kmKane County 110 kmMillard County 111 kmWayne County 118 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.2 (ml)
Depth
3.6 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Piute County, 25 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2098 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 58 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 260,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 16× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.2 about 58 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 38.1732, -112.3343. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Piute County, UT 25 km (16 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Piute County
Sevier County, UT 78 km (49 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Sevier County
Beaver County, UT 82 km (51 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Beaver County
Garfield County, UT 86 km (54 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Iron County, UT 90 km (56 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Iron County
Kane County, UT 110 km (68 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Kane County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 11 km ESE of Paragonah, Utah
  2. 2.2 17 km NW of Circleville, Utah
  3. 1.8 11 km SSW of Beaver, Utah
  4. 1.8 10 km SSW of Beaver, Utah
  5. 1.6 14 km NW of Panguitch, Utah
  6. 1.8 24 km WSW of Circleville, Utah
  7. 1.6 12 km WSW of Circleville, Utah
  8. 3.6 15 km SW of Circleville, Utah
  9. 1.7 7 km W of Marysvale, Utah
  10. 1.6 16 km N of Paragonah, Utah
  11. 1.5 10 km NW of Junction, Utah
  12. 1.5 Utah
  13. 1.6 9 km SE of Beaver, Utah
  14. 1.6 13 km SSW of Beaver, Utah
  15. 1.6 8 km WNW of Marysvale, 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 4.4 on 2020-10-03 — it released about 2,200 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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