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M 1.6ml
Earthquake near Parowan, UT
No earthquake was likely felt in Parowan in the 24 hours to 8:49 pm MST (03:49 UTC). The last one was M 1.8, 10 km (6 mi) WSW, at 8:04 pm MDT on 28 August 2026, estimated intensity II (weak) in town. Every earthquake near Parowan
This page: a magnitude 1.6 earthquake was recorded 29 km (18 mi) northeast of Parowan, UT, at 7:23 am MDT on 12 May 2022 (13:23 UTC), 5.6 km deep.
USGS: 22 km NE of Paragonah, Utah
- When
- 7:23 am MDT on 12 May 2022 ()
- Where
- 29 km (18 mi) northeast of Parowan, UT · earthquakes near Parowan
- Magnitude
- M 1.6 (ml)
- Depth
- 5.6 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Piute County, 53 km NE
- Nearest mapped fault
- Parowan Valley faults, 18 km from its surface trace — near is not the same as on
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1646 days ago
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This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.
At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 9 km (6 mi) from the epicentre. In Parowan, 29 km away, the estimate is intensity I (not felt). Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.
Earthquakes near other towns within 30 km: Panguitch.
How big was it?
This earthquake released about 6.4 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.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,400,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,700,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 150× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 1.6 about 6.4 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.
For this area
The largest earthquake within 50 km since 2016 was M 4.4 on 2020-10-03 — about 20,000 times the energy of this one.
Before 2016, the USGS record since 1900 lists no earthquake of M5 or more within 50 km.
Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.
Where
Epicentre 38.0010, -112.5685. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction from the epicentre | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Piute County, UT | 53 km (33 mi) | NE | earthquakes near Piute County |
| Iron County, UT | 66 km (41 mi) | W | earthquakes near Iron County |
| Beaver County, UT | 71 km (44 mi) | NW | earthquakes near Beaver County |
| Garfield County, UT | 100 km (62 mi) | E | earthquakes near Garfield County |
| Kane County, UT | 104 km (65 mi) | SE | earthquakes near Kane County |
| Sevier County, UT | 106 km (66 mi) | NE | earthquakes near Sevier 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.
- 1.8 17 km S of Beaver, Utah
- 1.6 Utah
- 1.6 8 km WNW of Junction, Utah
- 2.1 18 km NE of Paragonah, Utah
- 2.0 9 km E of Beaver, Utah
- 1.7 20 km SW of Minersville, Utah
- 1.9 6 km NNW of Circleville, Utah
- 1.7 10 km NW of Panguitch, Utah
- 1.9 6 km NNW of Enoch, Utah
- 1.7 4 km W of Summit, Utah
- 1.7 10 km NNW of Junction, Utah
- 1.5 16 km NNW of Panguitch, Utah
- 2.3 Utah
- 1.6 13 km SW of Circleville, Utah
- 1.6 12 km NNW of Panguitch, 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.
On USGS
- The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
- Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
- ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one
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