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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

11 km NNE of Howell, Utah

· 6.8 km deep · released about 12 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Oneida County 33 kmFranklin County 57 kmCache County 57 kmBox Elder County 63 kmWeber County 82 kmBannock County 90 kmPower County 96 kmDavis County 97 kmBear Lake County 98 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
6.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Oneida County, 33 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 447 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 12 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,300,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 900,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 80× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 12 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 41.8980, -112.4005. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Oneida County, ID 33 km (21 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Oneida County
Franklin County, ID 57 km (35 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Franklin County
Cache County, UT 57 km (36 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Cache County
Box Elder County, UT 63 km (39 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Box Elder County
Weber County, UT 82 km (51 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Weber County
Bannock County, ID 90 km (56 mi) S of here earthquakes near Bannock County

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

Aftershocks so far

49 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.

  1. 2.1 15 km WNW of Howell, Utah
  2. 1.8 1 km SE of Cornish, Utah
  3. 1.7 1 km SE of Cornish, Utah
  4. 2.0 12 km NNE of Howell, Utah
  5. 1.7 30 km SSW of Snowville, Utah
  6. 2.5 25 km NNW of Snowville, Utah
  7. 2.3 26 km NNW of Snowville, Utah
  8. 1.6 2 km E of Malad City, Idaho
  9. 2.0 2 km ESE of Malad City, Idaho
  10. 1.7 4 km NE of Malad City, Idaho
  11. 2.4 2 km E of Malad City, Idaho
  12. 1.5 3 km ENE of Malad City, Idaho
  13. 1.6 3 km E of Malad City, Idaho
  14. 2.6 2 km ESE of Malad City, Idaho
  15. 1.8 2 km ESE of Malad City, Idaho

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 2024-05-05 — it released about 9,100 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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