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M 1.6ml

15 km N of Fayette, Utah

· 6.9 km deep · released about 7.8 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Sanpete County 23 kmSevier County 69 kmUtah County 85 kmJuab County 90 kmEmery County 105 kmCarbon County 113 kmPiute County 117 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
6.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Sanpete County, 23 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 909 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.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,900,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 120× the energy of this one
  4. 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

Epicentre 39.3653, -111.8433. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Sanpete County, UT 23 km (14 mi) W of here earthquakes near Sanpete County
Sevier County, UT 69 km (43 mi) N of here earthquakes near Sevier County
Utah County, UT 85 km (53 mi) S of here earthquakes near Utah County
Juab County, UT 90 km (56 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Juab County
Emery County, UT 105 km (65 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Emery County
Carbon County, UT 113 km (70 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Carbon County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.5 7 km ENE of Mount Pleasant, Utah
  2. 1.9 18 km NNW of Fayette, Utah
  3. 2.2 18 km E of Mayfield, Utah
  4. 1.9 5 km ENE of Sterling, Utah
  5. 1.5 14 km E of Ephraim, Utah
  6. 1.5 17 km N of Fayette, Utah
  7. 1.6 19 km SW of Levan, Utah
  8. 3.0 9 km NNE of Scipio, Utah
  9. 1.5 9 km NNE of Scipio, Utah
  10. 1.8 17 km ESE of Holden, Utah
  11. 2.3 12 km NW of Fayette, Utah
  12. 1.8 8 km SW of Levan, Utah
  13. 1.6 18 km NNW of Fayette, Utah
  14. 2.0 9 km NNE of Scipio, Utah
  15. 2.3 22 km ESE of Mayfield, 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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