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M 2.1ml

13 km NW of Orangeville, Utah

· -1.9 km deep · released about 46 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Sanpete County 37 kmEmery County 51 kmCarbon County 62 kmSevier County 86 kmUtah County 99 kmWasatch County 113 kmWayne County 119 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.1 (ml)
Depth
-1.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Sanpete County, 37 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 926 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 46 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 330,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 230,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 21× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 46 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 39.3212, -111.1528. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Sanpete County, UT 37 km (23 mi) E of here earthquakes near Sanpete County
Emery County, UT 51 km (32 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Emery County
Carbon County, UT 62 km (39 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Carbon County
Sevier County, UT 86 km (53 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Sevier County
Utah County, UT 99 km (62 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Utah County
Wasatch County, UT 113 km (70 mi) S of here earthquakes near Wasatch County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 2 km NE of Helper, Utah
  2. 1.7 1 km NE of Helper, Utah
  3. 1.5 1 km NNE of Helper, Utah
  4. 1.5 2 km N of Helper, Utah
  5. 1.5 1 km NNE of Helper, Utah
  6. 1.7 2 km NNE of Helper, Utah
  7. 1.8 17 km WNW of Emery, Utah
  8. 1.6 5 km WNW of Scofield, Utah
  9. 2.1 4 km WSW of Mount Pleasant, Utah
  10. 1.5 15 km NW of Emery, Utah
  11. 1.6 2 km NE of Helper, Utah
  12. 1.6 0 km WSW of Kenilworth, Utah
  13. 1.6 3 km NNE of Clear Creek, Utah
  14. 1.6 17 km WNW of Emery, Utah
  15. 1.6 17 km NW of Emery, 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.

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