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M 3.2ml

19 km E of Providence, Utah

· 9.4 km deep · released about 1 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Cache County 14 kmRich County 30 kmWeber County 53 kmFranklin County 57 kmMorgan County 67 kmBear Lake County 69 kmDavis County 89 kmOneida County 94 kmLincoln County 96 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 3.2 (ml)
Depth
9.4 km below the surface
Felt
22 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Measured shaking
intensity III (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Cache County, 14 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1891 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 22 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 170,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 7,400× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 5,200× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2.1× more

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 41.6933, -111.5882. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Cache County, UT 14 km (9 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Cache County
Rich County, UT 30 km (19 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Rich County
Weber County, UT 53 km (33 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Weber County
Franklin County, ID 57 km (35 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Franklin County
Morgan County, UT 67 km (42 mi) N of here earthquakes near Morgan County
Bear Lake County, ID 69 km (43 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Bear Lake 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. 3.2 1 km NE of Benson, Utah
  2. 1.9 Utah
  3. 2.7 1 km NNE of Benson, Utah
  4. 1.8 1 km NNE of Benson, Utah
  5. 1.9 3 km NNW of Benson, Utah
  6. 2.8 2 km N of Benson, Utah
  7. 2.0 0 km ENE of Benson, Utah
  8. 2.6 2 km NW of Benson, Utah
  9. 2.5 2 km NNE of Benson, Utah
  10. 2.3 0 km NW of Benson, Utah
  11. 2.6 3 km SSE of Trenton, Utah
  12. 1.6 11 km ENE of Wolf Creek, Utah
  13. 1.6 3 km NW of Amalga, Utah
  14. 2.1 10 km E of Providence, Utah
  15. 1.8 10 km E of Providence, 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.

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