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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.1ml

17 km SE of Beaver, Utah

· 9.6 km deep · released about 43 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Piute County 38 kmBeaver County 68 kmIron County 75 kmSevier County 89 kmGarfield County 99 kmMillard County 104 kmKane County 116 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.1 (ml)
Depth
9.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Piute County, 38 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1445 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 43 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 350,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 250,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 22× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 43 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 38.1585, -112.5077. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Piute County, UT 38 km (24 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Piute County
Beaver County, UT 68 km (42 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Beaver County
Iron County, UT 75 km (47 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Iron County
Sevier County, UT 89 km (55 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Sevier County
Garfield County, UT 99 km (62 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Millard County, UT 104 km (65 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Millard 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. 2.0 19 km NNW of Panguitch, Utah
  2. 2.4 19 km NNW of Panguitch, Utah
  3. 1.5 21 km SSW of Antimony, Utah
  4. 1.7 18 km WSW of Panguitch, Utah
  5. 1.8 Utah
  6. 2.8 Utah
  7. 1.6 4 km N of Circleville, Utah
  8. 1.8 10 km SSW of Beaver, Utah
  9. 1.7 17 km SSE of Beaver, Utah
  10. 2.1 19 km ENE of Brian Head, Utah
  11. 2.0 18 km WSW of Panguitch, Utah
  12. 1.5 13 km NW of Hatch, Utah
  13. 2.0 9 km ESE of Marysvale, Utah
  14. 1.7 17 km ENE of Milford, Utah
  15. 1.6 12 km NE of Paragonah, 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 3,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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