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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7md

17 km NE of Paragonah, Utah

· 6.0 km deep · released about 9.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Piute County 58 kmIron County 59 kmBeaver County 65 kmGarfield County 107 kmKane County 109 kmSevier County 110 kmWashington County 111 kmMillard 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 1.7 (md)
Depth
6.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Piute County, 58 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2084 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 9.6 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,600,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,100,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 99× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 9.6 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

Epicentre 38.0047, -112.6457. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Piute County, UT 58 km (36 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Piute County
Iron County, UT 59 km (37 mi) E of here earthquakes near Iron County
Beaver County, UT 65 km (40 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Beaver County
Garfield County, UT 107 km (66 mi) W of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Kane County, UT 109 km (68 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Kane County
Sevier County, UT 110 km (68 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Sevier County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 9 km SSW of Milford, Utah
  2. 1.6 11 km SSW of Milford, Utah
  3. 2.2 2 km NE of Beaver, Utah
  4. 1.7 7 km NW of Circleville, Utah
  5. 2.2 14 km W of Panguitch, Utah
  6. 2.6 15 km ESE of Paragonah, Utah
  7. 2.1 13 km ESE of Paragonah, Utah
  8. 2.3 15 km W of Panguitch, Utah
  9. 2.3 15 km W of Panguitch, Utah
  10. 1.8 14 km ESE of Paragonah, Utah
  11. 2.1 19 km SSE of Minersville, Utah
  12. 2.0 5 km SE of Paragonah, Utah
  13. 2.5 20 km N of Paragonah, Utah
  14. 2.0 9 km NNW of Hatch, Utah
  15. 1.6 4 km N of Hatch, 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 13,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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