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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.9ml

5 km ENE of Magna, Utah

· 9.7 km deep · released about 24 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Salt Lake County 12 kmDavis County 37 kmMorgan County 56 kmWeber County 62 kmUtah County 75 kmWasatch County 87 kmSummit County 92 kmTooele County 95 kmCache County 115 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.9 (ml)
Depth
9.7 km below the surface
Felt
9 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Salt Lake County, 12 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1933 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 9 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 24 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 5.8 640,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 450,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 40× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 24 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 40.7273, -112.0472. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Salt Lake County, UT 12 km (8 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Salt Lake County
Davis County, UT 37 km (23 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Davis County
Morgan County, UT 56 km (35 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Morgan County
Weber County, UT 62 km (39 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Weber County
Utah County, UT 75 km (46 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Utah County
Wasatch County, UT 87 km (54 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Wasatch County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 2 km SSE of Bingham Canyon, Utah
  2. 1.6 5 km ENE of Magna, Utah
  3. 1.8 5 km ENE of Magna, Utah
  4. 1.6 5 km SSW of Bingham Canyon, Utah
  5. 2.0 12 km WSW of Echo, Utah
  6. 1.9 7 km SSW of Bingham Canyon, Utah
  7. 1.6 5 km NNW of West Valley City, Utah
  8. 1.8 Utah
  9. 2.5 8 km NNW of Summit Park, Utah
  10. 1.7 4 km S of Bingham Canyon, Utah
  11. 1.5 4 km NW of Silver Summit, Utah
  12. 1.7 11 km ESE of Bountiful, Utah
  13. 1.7 3 km ENE of Magna, Utah
  14. 2.5 3 km ENE of Magna, Utah
  15. 1.6 2 km S of North Salt Lake, 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 5.7 on 2020-03-18 — it released about 450,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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