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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.9ml

15 km NNW of Paragonah, Utah

· 8.4 km deep · released about 24 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Iron County 44 kmBeaver County 52 kmPiute County 70 kmWashington County 103 kmMillard County 108 kmSevier County 120 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.9 (ml)
Depth
8.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Iron County, 44 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1160 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 24 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 5.8 640,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 450,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 40× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 24 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 38.0205, -112.8248. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Iron County, UT 44 km (27 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Iron County
Beaver County, UT 52 km (32 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Beaver County
Piute County, UT 70 km (44 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Piute County
Washington County, UT 103 km (64 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Washington County
Millard County, UT 108 km (67 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Millard County
Sevier County, UT 120 km (74 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Sevier 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. 1.8 2 km ENE of Summit, Utah
  2. 2.1 19 km ENE of Milford, Utah
  3. 2.0 7 km WNW of Enoch, Utah
  4. 2.7 3 km NE of Summit, Utah
  5. 1.7 16 km NW of Cedar City, Utah
  6. 2.5 6 km NNW of Cedar City, Utah
  7. 1.9 21 km WSW of Minersville, Utah
  8. 1.8 39 km WSW of Minersville, Utah
  9. 1.8 15 km E of Milford, Utah
  10. 1.9 15 km ESE of Milford, Utah
  11. 1.7 15 km ESE of Milford, Utah
  12. 2.1 15 km S of Beaver, Utah
  13. 1.6 8 km SW of Milford, Utah
  14. 1.9 4 km NNW of Enoch, Utah
  15. 1.5 2 km N of Beaver, 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 5,400 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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