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M 1.6ml

11 km ENE of Wolf Creek, Utah

· 0.6 km deep · released about 6.8 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Weber County 19 kmMorgan County 34 kmCache County 40 kmRich County 48 kmDavis County 56 kmSalt Lake County 81 kmSummit County 83 kmFranklin County 89 kmUinta County 96 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
0.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Weber County, 19 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1381 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 41.3780, -111.7033. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Weber County, UT 19 km (12 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Weber County
Morgan County, UT 34 km (21 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Morgan County
Cache County, UT 40 km (25 mi) S of here earthquakes near Cache County
Rich County, UT 48 km (30 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Rich County
Davis County, UT 56 km (35 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Davis County
Salt Lake County, UT 81 km (50 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Salt Lake County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 12 km E of Providence, Utah
  2. 2.2 12 km ENE of Paradise, Utah
  3. 1.6 6 km ESE of Providence, Utah
  4. 1.6 8 km NE of Morgan, Utah
  5. 1.8 7 km NE of Morgan, Utah
  6. 2.3 5 km ENE of Huntsville, Utah
  7. 2.4 11 km ENE of Huntsville, Utah
  8. 1.7 28 km WSW of Bear River, Wyoming
  9. 2.0 7 km WNW of Woodruff, Utah
  10. 1.7 3 km ESE of Honeyville, Utah
  11. 1.6 9 km ESE of Avon, Utah
  12. 2.3 Utah
  13. 3.3 23 km SW of Woodruff, Utah
  14. 1.5 8 km ESE of Avon, Utah
  15. 1.7 7 km ENE 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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