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M 2.0ml
Earthquake near Silver Summit, UT
No earthquake was likely felt in Silver Summit in the 24 hours to 9:48 pm MST (04:48 UTC). The last one was M 2.4, 9 km (5 mi) W, at 1:30 pm MDT on 17 October 2026, estimated intensity II (weak) in town; 6 felt reports to USGS. Every earthquake near Silver Summit
This page: a magnitude 2.0 earthquake was recorded 6 km (4 mi) east of Silver Summit, UT, at 8:47 am MST on 6 December 2023 (15:47 UTC), 11 km deep.
USGS: 6 km E of Silver Summit, Utah
44 km (27 mi) E of Salt Lake City, UT · 35 km (22 mi) E of Millcreek, UT
- When
- 8:47 am MST on 6 December 2023 ()
- Where
- 6 km (4 mi) east of Silver Summit, UT · earthquakes near Silver Summit
- Magnitude
- M 2.0 (ml)
- Depth
- 11 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Summit County, 41 km ENE
- Nearest mapped fault
- Main Canyon fault, 17 km from its surface trace — near is not the same as on
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1029 days ago
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This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.
At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 11 km (7 mi) from the epicentre. In Silver Summit, 6 km away, the estimate is intensity II (weak). Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.
Earthquakes near other towns within 30 km: Oakley, Snyderville, Park City, Kamas, Summit Park, Francis.
How big was it?
This earthquake released about 27 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.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 560,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 390,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 35× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 2.0 about 27 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.
For this area
No earthquake of M4 or more has been recorded within 50 km since our catalogue begins in 2016.
Before 2016, the USGS record lists one earthquake of M5 or more within 50 km:
- 5.3 Near Salt Lake City, Utah · 32 km W of this epicentre
Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.
Where
Epicentre 40.7350, -111.4172. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction from the epicentre | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Summit County, UT | 41 km (25 mi) | ENE | earthquakes near Summit County |
| Morgan County, UT | 42 km (26 mi) | NNW | earthquakes near Morgan County |
| Salt Lake County, UT | 43 km (27 mi) | W | earthquakes near Salt Lake County |
| Wasatch County, UT | 49 km (31 mi) | SSE | earthquakes near Wasatch County |
| Weber County, UT | 71 km (44 mi) | NNW | earthquakes near Weber County |
| Utah County, UT | 72 km (44 mi) | SSW | earthquakes near Utah County |
Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.
Aftershocks so far
31 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
- 1.6 2 km ENE of Summit Park, Utah
- 1.8 5 km E of Heber City, Utah
- 2.1 5 km NW of Summit Park, Utah
- 1.7 2 km ESE of Echo, Utah
- 2.7 41 km ENE of Oakley, Utah
- 4.7 40 km S of Evanston, Wyoming
- 1.8 6 km ESE of Daniel, Utah
- 1.8 13 km ESE of Centerville, Utah
- 1.7 4 km WNW of Silver Summit, Utah
- 2.8 6 km WNW of Independence, Utah
- 1.9 9 km W of Independence, Utah
- 1.6 7 km SSE of Wallsburg, Utah
- 2.3 4 km WNW of Independence, Utah
- 1.5 9 km S of Morgan, Utah
- 1.6 9 km S of Morgan, 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.
On USGS
- The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
- Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
- ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one
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