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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5md

16 km W of Emery, Utah

· 2.6 km deep · released about 5.7 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Sevier County 37 kmSanpete County 52 kmEmery County 63 kmWayne County 83 kmPiute County 88 kmCarbon County 112 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (md)
Depth
2.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Sevier County, 37 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1648 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 5.7 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 2,600,000× 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 5.7 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 38.9180, -111.4412. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Sevier County, UT 37 km (23 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Sevier County
Sanpete County, UT 52 km (32 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Sanpete County
Emery County, UT 63 km (39 mi) W of here earthquakes near Emery County
Wayne County, UT 83 km (52 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Wayne County
Piute County, UT 88 km (55 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Piute County
Carbon County, UT 112 km (69 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Carbon 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. 1.6 4 km WNW of Centerfield, Utah
  2. 1.6 16 km SSE of Salina, Utah
  3. 2.0 18 km SSW of Emery, Utah
  4. 1.8 21 km WSW of Emery, Utah
  5. 1.6 12 km WNW of Emery, Utah
  6. 2.9 6 km W of Gunnison, Utah
  7. 1.9 6 km SSE of Centerfield, Utah
  8. 1.6 6 km SSE of Centerfield, Utah
  9. 1.5 4 km SE of Aurora, Utah
  10. 1.5 5 km SE of Aurora, Utah
  11. 1.6 6 km NW of Emery, Utah
  12. 1.6 6 km NW of Emery, Utah
  13. 1.8 6 km NW of Emery, Utah
  14. 1.8 7 km NNW of Emery, Utah
  15. 1.6 27 km WSW of Emery, 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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