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M 1.6ml

10 km ESE of Glenwood, Utah

· 16 km deep · released about 6.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Sevier County 6 kmPiute County 49 kmSanpete County 76 kmWayne County 94 kmEmery County 105 kmGarfield County 107 kmMillard County 111 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
16 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Sevier County, 6 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1872 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 6.6 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 2,300,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,600,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 140× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 6.6 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 38.7308, -111.8823. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Sevier County, UT 6 km (4 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Sevier County
Piute County, UT 49 km (30 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Piute County
Sanpete County, UT 76 km (47 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Sanpete County
Wayne County, UT 94 km (58 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Wayne County
Emery County, UT 105 km (65 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Emery County
Garfield County, UT 107 km (66 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Garfield County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 8 km SE of Mayfield, Utah
  2. 1.7 27 km SW of Emery, Utah
  3. 1.9 6 km S of Joseph, Utah
  4. 2.0 29 km SW of Emery, Utah
  5. 1.5 11 km W of Emery, Utah
  6. 2.0 7 km SW of Fayette, Utah
  7. 1.8 5 km WSW of Richfield, Utah
  8. 1.8 4 km WNW of Joseph, Utah
  9. 1.5 9 km SSE of Joseph, Utah
  10. 2.0 7 km SSE of Joseph, Utah
  11. 1.9 5 km S of Joseph, Utah
  12. 1.7 9 km SE of Marysvale, Utah
  13. 1.5 16 km W of Emery, Utah
  14. 1.5 16 km W of Emery, Utah
  15. 2.4 3 km NNW of Joseph, 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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