19 km ESE of Ursine, Nevada

2024-03-27 08:45 UTC · 8.7 km deep · released about 7.8 lb of TNT

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: 2024-03-27 08:45 UTC
Magnitude: M 1.6 (ml)
Depth: 8.7 km below the surface
Felt: no reports yet
Nearest: Iron County, 61 km E
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS 914 days ago · we first saw it 914 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 7.8 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.

Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,900,000× the energy of this one
Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 120× the energy of this one
This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.8 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

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Epicentre 37.9503, -114.0018. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

Place	Distance	Direction
Iron County, UT	61 km (38 mi)	W of here	earthquakes near Iron County
Beaver County, UT	81 km (50 mi)	SW of here	earthquakes near Beaver County
Lincoln County, NV	83 km (52 mi)	ENE of here	earthquakes near Lincoln County
Washington County, UT	89 km (55 mi)	NNW of here	earthquakes near Washington County
Millard County, UT	135 km (84 mi)	SW of here	earthquakes near Millard County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

1.6 27 km NNE of Beryl Junction, Utah 06:07 UTC
1.7 14 km WSW of Enterprise, Utah 06:22 UTC
1.8 13 km NNW of Beryl Junction, Utah 18:04 UTC
1.9 7 km E of Panaca, Nevada 15:27 UTC
1.5 11 km NNW of Beryl Junction, Utah 05:05 UTC
2.1 13 km NNW of Beryl Junction, Utah 00:35 UTC
1.9 8 km NW of Beryl Junction, Utah 23:59 UTC
2.6 25 km NNE of Ursine, Nevada 10:56 UTC
2.4 26 km NNE of Ursine, Nevada 16:35 UTC
2.0 11 km N of Beryl Junction, Utah 15:39 UTC
1.5 14 km NW of Beryl Junction, Utah 01:16 UTC
1.5 28 km W of Beryl Junction, Utah 18:47 UTC
1.7 7 km E of Panaca, Nevada 17:52 UTC
1.7 7 km ENE of Panaca, Nevada 17:37 UTC
1.8 20 km WNW of Beryl Junction, Utah 20:47 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 16:53 UTC. 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 4.2 on 2016-01-15 — it released about 8,800 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
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ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

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