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M 1.6ml

2 km SSW of Manti, Utah

· 3.3 km deep · released about 9 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Sanpete County 15 kmSevier County 57 kmEmery County 85 kmUtah County 97 kmCarbon County 103 kmPiute County 110 kmJuab County 111 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
3.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Sanpete County, 15 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1890 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 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 110× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 9 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 39.2485, -111.6527. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Sanpete County, UT 15 km (10 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Sanpete County
Sevier County, UT 57 km (36 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Sevier County
Emery County, UT 85 km (53 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Emery County
Utah County, UT 97 km (60 mi) S of here earthquakes near Utah County
Carbon County, UT 103 km (64 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Carbon County
Piute County, UT 110 km (68 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Piute County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 7 km NNW of Emery, Utah
  2. 1.6 7 km NW of Emery, Utah
  3. 1.8 7 km NNW of Emery, Utah
  4. 1.5 7 km NNW of Emery, Utah
  5. 1.6 7 km NW of Emery, Utah
  6. 1.9 7 km NNW of Emery, Utah
  7. 2.0 7 km NNW of Emery, Utah
  8. 1.8 7 km NW of Emery, Utah
  9. 2.1 Utah
  10. 1.5 7 km NNW of Emery, Utah
  11. 1.6 6 km NNW of Emery, Utah
  12. 1.5 Utah
  13. 1.5 17 km W of Hiawatha, Utah
  14. 3.0 4 km ENE of Mount Pleasant, Utah
  15. 1.5 7 km E of Mount Pleasant, 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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