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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5ml

23 km WNW of Marysvale, Utah

· 4.1 km deep · released about 5.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Piute County 36 kmSevier County 65 kmBeaver County 67 kmMillard County 75 kmIron County 97 kmGarfield County 117 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 1.5 (ml)
Depth
4.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Piute County, 36 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1854 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 5.6 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 2,700,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,900,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 170× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.6 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 38.4987, -112.4912. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Piute County, UT 36 km (23 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Piute County
Sevier County, UT 65 km (40 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Sevier County
Beaver County, UT 67 km (42 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Beaver County
Millard County, UT 75 km (47 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Millard County
Iron County, UT 97 km (60 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Iron County
Garfield County, UT 117 km (73 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Garfield County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 17 km ENE of Milford, Utah
  2. 2.4 3 km NNW of Joseph, Utah
  3. 1.5 24 km SSW of Kanosh, Utah
  4. 1.7 16 km S of Beaver, Utah
  5. 1.6 2 km SW of Junction, Utah
  6. 1.5 6 km S of Joseph, Utah
  7. 1.9 1 km WSW of Junction, Utah
  8. 3.4 4 km S of Joseph, Utah
  9. 1.6 7 km SSE of Joseph, Utah
  10. 2.2 4 km S of Joseph, Utah
  11. 1.9 5 km S of Joseph, Utah
  12. 1.9 5 km S of Joseph, Utah
  13. 2.7 4 km S of Joseph, Utah
  14. 1.9 7 km S of Joseph, Utah
  15. 2.0 8 km S 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.4 on 2020-10-03 — it released about 23,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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