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M 1.6md

32 km S of Cannonville, Utah

· 6.0 km deep · released about 6.8 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Kane County 24 kmGarfield County 83 kmPiute County 118 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (md)
Depth
6.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Kane County, 24 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1637 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 6.8 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 2,200,000× 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 6.8 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 37.2727, -112.0822. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Kane County, UT 24 km (15 mi) W of here earthquakes near Kane County
Garfield County, UT 83 km (52 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Piute County, UT 118 km (74 mi) S of here earthquakes near Piute County
Iron County, UT 129 km (80 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Iron County
Wayne County, UT 146 km (91 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Wayne County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 11 km E of Hatch, Utah
  2. 1.6 12 km E of Hatch, Utah
  3. 2.4 11 km E of Hatch, Utah
  4. 1.7 13 km SE of Hatch, Utah
  5. 1.8 17 km E of Kanab, Utah
  6. 1.7 10 km N of Alton, Utah
  7. 2.9 14 km E of Fredonia, Arizona
  8. 1.9 18 km E of Fredonia, Arizona
  9. 1.6 9 km W of Bryce Canyon City, Utah
  10. 1.7 9 km W of Bryce Canyon City, Utah
  11. 1.8 9 km WSW of Bryce Canyon City, Utah
  12. 1.7 7 km E of Fredonia, Arizona
  13. 2.1 13 km ESE of Hatch, Utah
  14. 1.8 12 km E of Alton, Utah
  15. 1.8 8 km E of Fredonia, Arizona

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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