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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

12 km NW of Hatch, Utah

· -3.3 km deep · released about 8.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Iron County 71 kmPiute County 76 kmKane County 81 kmBeaver County 93 kmGarfield County 96 kmWashington County 99 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
-3.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Iron County, 71 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1070 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 8.4 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 1,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,300,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 110× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 8.4 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 37.7318, -112.5340. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Iron County, UT 71 km (44 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Iron County
Piute County, UT 76 km (47 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Piute County
Kane County, UT 81 km (50 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Kane County
Beaver County, UT 93 km (58 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Beaver County
Garfield County, UT 96 km (60 mi) W of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Washington County, UT 99 km (62 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Washington 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. 1.8 9 km WSW of Bryce Canyon City, Utah
  2. 1.8 4 km N of Enoch, Utah
  3. 1.6 8 km NW of Enoch, Utah
  4. 1.7 12 km SSE of Beaver, Utah
  5. 1.6 23 km NE of Paragonah, Utah
  6. 1.9 11 km E of Kanarraville, Utah
  7. 1.6 11 km E of Kanarraville, Utah
  8. 2.1 11 km ENE of Kanarraville, Utah
  9. 2.2 11 km ENE of Kanarraville, Utah
  10. 1.6 12 km ENE of Kanarraville, Utah
  11. 1.8 11 km E of Kanarraville, Utah
  12. 3.1 11 km ENE of Kanarraville, Utah
  13. 2.1 11 km ENE of Kanarraville, Utah
  14. 2.0 11 km E of Kanarraville, Utah
  15. 2.3 11 km ENE of Kanarraville, 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 15,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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