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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0ml

9 km E of Beaver, Utah

· 3.1 km deep · released about 28 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Piute County 36 kmBeaver County 62 kmIron County 79 kmSevier County 82 kmMillard County 92 kmGarfield County 107 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (ml)
Depth
3.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Piute County, 36 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1280 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 28 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 540,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 380,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 34× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 28 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 38.2790, -112.5357. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Piute County, UT 36 km (22 mi) W of here earthquakes near Piute County
Beaver County, UT 62 km (39 mi) E of here earthquakes near Beaver County
Iron County, UT 79 km (49 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Iron County
Sevier County, UT 82 km (51 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Sevier County
Millard County, UT 92 km (57 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Millard County
Garfield County, UT 107 km (67 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Garfield County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 10 km NW of Circleville, Utah
  2. 1.5 10 km SSW of Circleville, Utah
  3. 2.0 0 km ESE of Beaver, Utah
  4. 1.7 18 km NE of Milford, Utah
  5. 2.2 22 km N of Panguitch, Utah
  6. 2.0 5 km NNW of Junction, Utah
  7. 1.8 8 km NNW of Panguitch, Utah
  8. 1.6 7 km NNW of Panguitch, Utah
  9. 2.1 7 km SE of Marysvale, Utah
  10. 1.7 11 km S of Beaver, Utah
  11. 1.5 3 km SW of Circleville, Utah
  12. 1.5 Utah
  13. 2.8 13 km SSE of Beaver, Utah
  14. 1.5 32 km N of Beaver, Utah
  15. 1.6 5 km W of Circleville, 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 4,600 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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