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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.9ml

47 km ENE of Baker, Nevada

· 4.7 km deep · released about 19 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Millard County 56 kmJuab County 92 kmBeaver County 105 kmWhite Pine County 108 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
4.7 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Millard County, 56 km SE
Nearest mapped fault
House Range (west side) fault, 18 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 1013 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 39.2405, -113.6640. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Millard County, UT 56 km (35 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Millard County
Juab County, UT 92 km (57 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Juab County
Beaver County, UT 105 km (65 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Beaver County
White Pine County, NV 108 km (67 mi) E of here earthquakes near White Pine County

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

Aftershocks so far

1 earthquake has been recorded within 50 km since this one.

  1. 1.5 41 km ESE of Baker, Nevada

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.

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