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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5md

20 km WSW of Minersville, Utah

· 0.5 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Beaver County 27 kmIron County 29 kmPiute County 90 kmMillard County 91 kmWashington County 102 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (md)
Depth
0.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Beaver County, 27 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1903 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 5.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 180× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.4 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 38.1342, -113.1310. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Beaver County, UT 27 km (17 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Beaver County
Iron County, UT 29 km (18 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Iron County
Piute County, UT 90 km (56 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Piute County
Millard County, UT 91 km (57 mi) S of here earthquakes near Millard County
Washington County, UT 102 km (63 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Washington County
Sevier County, UT 134 km (83 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Sevier County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 7 km S of Summit, Utah
  2. 2.1 9 km W of Enoch, Utah
  3. 1.5 18 km ENE of Milford, Utah
  4. 1.6 5 km WNW of Summit, Utah
  5. 2.1 16 km WNW of Enoch, Utah
  6. 1.6 8 km S of Beaver, Utah
  7. 2.0 Utah
  8. 2.0 16 km SE of Minersville, Utah
  9. 1.6 2 km S of Summit, Utah
  10. 2.1 3 km SW of Summit, Utah
  11. 2.7 2 km SSW of Summit, Utah
  12. 2.5 1 km WSW of Summit, Utah
  13. 1.7 3 km ESE of Beaver, Utah
  14. 1.6 3 km WNW of Summit, Utah
  15. 1.7 14 km S of Beaver, 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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