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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.9ml

12 km NW of Aurora, Utah

· 11 km deep · released about 21 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Sevier County 34 kmSanpete County 58 kmPiute County 74 kmMillard County 95 kmJuab County 103 kmEmery County 114 km
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
Magnitude
M 1.9 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Sevier County, 34 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2169 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 21 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 710,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 500,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 45× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 21 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 38.9973, -112.0390. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Sevier County, UT 34 km (21 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Sevier County
Sanpete County, UT 58 km (36 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Sanpete County
Piute County, UT 74 km (46 mi) N of here earthquakes near Piute County
Millard County, UT 95 km (59 mi) E of here earthquakes near Millard County
Juab County, UT 103 km (64 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Juab County
Emery County, UT 114 km (71 mi) W of here earthquakes near Emery County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 4 km S of Joseph, Utah
  2. 1.9 5 km S of Joseph, Utah
  3. 1.9 5 km S of Joseph, Utah
  4. 2.7 4 km S of Joseph, Utah
  5. 3.5 5 km S of Joseph, Utah
  6. 1.6 12 km SW of Fayette, Utah
  7. 1.6 7 km N of Redmond, Utah
  8. 1.6 15 km ESE of Fillmore, Utah
  9. 1.7 5 km NNW of Richfield, Utah
  10. 1.5 8 km NW of Fayette, Utah
  11. 1.5 5 km ENE of Mayfield, Utah
  12. 2.6 12 km N of Koosharem, Utah
  13. 2.2 4 km N of Richfield, Utah
  14. 2.4 16 km SSW of Levan, Utah
  15. 1.9 15 km SSW of Levan, 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 4.0 on 2019-02-20 — it released about 1,600 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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