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M 2.2ml
Earthquake near Milford, UT
Yes: an earthquake was likely felt in Milford in the last 24 hours. M 2.0, 15 km (10 mi) NNE of Milford, at 9:19 am MST on 12 November 2026 (16:19 UTC); the estimated shaking in Milford was intensity II (weak). Every earthquake near Milford
This page: a magnitude 2.2 earthquake was recorded 19 km (12 mi) east of Milford, UT, at 12:32 pm MDT on 24 September 2022 (18:32 UTC), 6.1 km deep.
USGS: 18 km E of Milford, Utah
- When
- 12:32 pm MDT on 24 September 2022 ()
- Where
- 19 km (12 mi) east of Milford, UT · earthquakes near Milford
- Magnitude
- M 2.2 (ml)
- Depth
- 6.1 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Beaver County, 39 km W
- Nearest mapped fault
- Beaver Basin faults, 4 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 1508 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 18 km (11 mi) from the epicentre. In Milford, 19 km away, the estimate is intensity II (weak). 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: Beaver.
How big was it?
This earthquake released about 64 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.2 would have released about 32 times as much.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 230,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 170,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 15× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 2.2 about 64 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 2,000 times the energy of this one.
Before 2016, the USGS record lists one earthquake of M5 or more within 50 km:
- 6.6 Near Marysvale, Utah · 36 km ENE of this epicentre
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 38.3958, -112.7960. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction from the epicentre | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beaver County, UT | 39 km (24 mi) | W | earthquakes near Beaver County |
| Piute County, UT | 59 km (36 mi) | E | earthquakes near Piute County |
| Millard County, UT | 69 km (43 mi) | NNW | earthquakes near Millard County |
| Iron County, UT | 70 km (44 mi) | SW | earthquakes near Iron County |
| Sevier County, UT | 94 km (58 mi) | ENE | earthquakes near Sevier County |
| Garfield County, UT | 133 km (83 mi) | ESE | earthquakes near Garfield County |
Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.
Aftershocks so far
49 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
- 1.9 21 km NNW of Panguitch, Utah
- 1.8 11 km S of Marysvale, Utah
- 1.6 16 km SW of Marysvale, Utah
- 1.5 Utah
- 1.9 15 km NNW of Paragonah, Utah
- 1.8 Utah
- 1.8 10 km SSW of Beaver, Utah
- 1.7 17 km SSE of Beaver, Utah
- 1.7 17 km ENE of Milford, Utah
- 1.6 12 km NE of Paragonah, Utah
- 1.7 14 km WNW of Junction, Utah
- 2.0 12 km WNW of Junction, Utah
- 1.9 12 km WNW of Junction, Utah
- 2.2 11 km WNW of Junction, Utah
- 1.8 17 km S 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.
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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