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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.1ml

19 km SSE of Minersville, Utah

· 5.5 km deep · released about 49 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Iron County 46 kmBeaver County 49 kmPiute County 68 kmMillard County 103 kmWashington County 107 kmSevier County 116 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.1 (ml)
Depth
5.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Iron County, 46 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2039 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 49 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 310,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 220,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 19× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 49 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 38.0615, -112.8192. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Iron County, UT 46 km (29 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Iron County
Beaver County, UT 49 km (31 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Beaver County
Piute County, UT 68 km (42 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Piute County
Millard County, UT 103 km (64 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Millard County
Washington County, UT 107 km (66 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Washington County
Sevier County, UT 116 km (72 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

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

  1. 1.6 11 km SSW of Milford, Utah
  2. 2.5 9 km SW of Milford, Utah
  3. 1.6 9 km SW of Milford, Utah
  4. 1.7 10 km SW of Milford, Utah
  5. 2.1 9 km SSW of Milford, Utah
  6. 3.0 9 km SW of Milford, Utah
  7. 1.5 9 km SW of Milford, Utah
  8. 1.7 Utah
  9. 2.0 9 km SW of Milford, Utah
  10. 1.9 9 km SW of Milford, Utah
  11. 1.9 9 km SSW of Milford, Utah
  12. 2.4 9 km SW of Milford, Utah
  13. 2.2 9 km SW of Milford, Utah
  14. 1.7 10 km SW of Milford, Utah
  15. 2.5 10 km SW of Milford, 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 2,600 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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