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M 1.8ml

10 km E of Providence, Utah

· 9.1 km deep · released about 17 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Cache County 5 kmRich County 39 kmWeber County 51 kmFranklin County 52 kmMorgan County 70 kmBear Lake County 71 kmDavis County 86 kmOneida County 86 kmLincoln County 102 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.8 (ml)
Depth
9.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Cache County, 5 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1389 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 17 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 900,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 640,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 57× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 17 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 41.7115, -111.6937. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Cache County, UT 5 km (3 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Cache County
Rich County, UT 39 km (24 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Rich County
Weber County, UT 51 km (32 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Weber County
Franklin County, ID 52 km (33 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Franklin County
Morgan County, UT 70 km (43 mi) N of here earthquakes near Morgan County
Bear Lake County, ID 71 km (44 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Bear Lake County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 5 km ENE of Huntsville, Utah
  2. 2.4 11 km ENE of Huntsville, Utah
  3. 1.9 10 km E of Franklin, Idaho
  4. 1.9 15 km WSW of Bloomington, Idaho
  5. 2.0 7 km WNW of Woodruff, Utah
  6. 1.7 3 km ESE of Honeyville, Utah
  7. 1.6 9 km ESE of Avon, Utah
  8. 2.3 Utah
  9. 1.5 8 km ESE of Avon, Utah
  10. 2.5 10 km WSW of Garden, Utah
  11. 1.7 7 km ENE of Avon, Utah
  12. 3.7 15 km ENE of Wolf Creek, Utah
  13. 2.1 6 km E of Avon, Utah
  14. 1.6 6 km E of Avon, Utah
  15. 1.9 6 km E of Avon, 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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