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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.5ml

12 km S of Beaver, Utah

· 8.7 km deep · released about 150 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Piute County 47 kmBeaver County 58 kmIron County 66 kmSevier County 96 kmMillard County 98 kmGarfield County 109 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.5 (ml)
Depth
8.7 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Piute County, 47 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1716 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 150 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 100,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 72,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 6.5× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.5 about 150 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 38.1693, -112.6240. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Piute County, UT 47 km (29 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Piute County
Beaver County, UT 58 km (36 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Beaver County
Iron County, UT 66 km (41 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Iron County
Sevier County, UT 96 km (59 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Sevier County
Millard County, UT 98 km (61 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Millard County
Garfield County, UT 109 km (68 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Garfield County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 2 km SW of Junction, Utah
  2. 1.9 1 km WSW of Junction, Utah
  3. 1.6 9 km SW of Milford, Utah
  4. 1.7 9 km SW of Milford, Utah
  5. 1.9 9 km WSW of Milford, Utah
  6. 1.7 9 km SW of Milford, Utah
  7. 2.0 9 km SW of Milford, Utah
  8. 1.8 Utah
  9. 1.8 8 km SW of Milford, Utah
  10. 2.6 22 km NNW of Panguitch, Utah
  11. 1.8 23 km NNW of Panguitch, Utah
  12. 3.0 22 km NNW of Panguitch, Utah
  13. 2.4 6 km NE of Beaver, Utah
  14. 1.5 8 km WNW of Parowan, Utah
  15. 2.0 6 km SW 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.4 on 2020-10-03 — it released about 870 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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