16 km SW of Santa Clara, Utah

2021-01-03 18:21 UTC · 11 km deep · released about 6.6 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: 2021-01-03 18:21 UTC
Magnitude: M 1.6 (md)
Depth: 11 km below the surface
Felt: no reports yet
Nearest: Washington County, 37 km NE
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS 2092 days ago · we first saw it 2092 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 6.6 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,300,000× the energy of this one
Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,600,000× the energy of this one
Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 140× the energy of this one
This earthquake M 1.6 about 6.6 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 37.0463, -113.7992. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

Place	Distance	Direction
Washington County, UT	37 km (23 mi)	SW of here	earthquakes near Washington County
Iron County, UT	105 km (65 mi)	SSW of here	earthquakes near Iron County
Lincoln County, NV	115 km (71 mi)	SE of here	earthquakes near Lincoln County
Clark County, NV	143 km (89 mi)	NE of here	earthquakes near Clark County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

1.7 13 km NE of Beaver Dam, Arizona 21:01 UTC
2.3 10 km N of Beaver Dam, Arizona 10:53 UTC
1.6 10 km W of Ivins, Utah 18:09 UTC
2.1 14 km NNE of Beaver Dam, Arizona 01:04 UTC
1.7 32 km WNW of Veyo, Utah 21:36 UTC
1.8 14 km NNE of Beaver Dam, Arizona 11:15 UTC
1.6 18 km WSW of Santa Clara, Utah 01:27 UTC
1.7 13 km SSW of Saint George, Utah 16:54 UTC
1.5 14 km N of Beaver Dam, Arizona 13:53 UTC
1.9 13 km S of Saint George, Utah 02:40 UTC
1.9 25 km ESE of Littlefield, Arizona 22:47 UTC
1.9 11 km SSW of Saint George, Utah 19:32 UTC
1.8 10 km WSW of Santa Clara, Utah 05:31 UTC
1.7 Arizona 14:56 UTC
1.7 11 km N of Beaver Dam, Arizona 04:37 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 17:17 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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