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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.9ml

12 km WNW of Junction, Utah

· 7.0 km deep · released about 19 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Piute County 20 kmSevier County 70 kmBeaver County 78 kmGarfield County 93 kmIron County 93 kmMillard County 102 kmWayne County 119 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 1.9 (ml)
Depth
7.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Piute County, 20 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1227 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 19 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 810,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 580,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 51× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 19 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 38.2728, -112.3498. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Piute County, UT 20 km (13 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Piute County
Sevier County, UT 70 km (44 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Sevier County
Beaver County, UT 78 km (49 mi) E of here earthquakes near Beaver County
Garfield County, UT 93 km (58 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Iron County, UT 93 km (58 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Iron County
Millard County, UT 102 km (63 mi) SE 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. 1.8 15 km E of Milford, Utah
  2. 1.9 15 km ESE of Milford, Utah
  3. 1.7 15 km ESE of Milford, Utah
  4. 2.1 15 km S of Beaver, Utah
  5. 1.8 18 km NE of Milford, Utah
  6. 1.5 2 km N of Beaver, Utah
  7. 1.5 10 km NW of Circleville, Utah
  8. 1.5 10 km SSW of Circleville, Utah
  9. 2.0 0 km ESE of Beaver, Utah
  10. 1.7 18 km NE of Milford, Utah
  11. 2.2 22 km N of Panguitch, Utah
  12. 2.0 5 km NNW of Junction, Utah
  13. 1.8 8 km NNW of Panguitch, Utah
  14. 1.6 7 km NNW of Panguitch, Utah
  15. 1.8 16 km S of Antimony, 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 6,900 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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