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M 1.6ml

7 km WSW of Thatcher, Utah

· 8.8 km deep · released about 7.3 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Cache County 53 kmBox Elder County 57 kmOneida County 58 kmWeber County 61 kmFranklin County 72 kmDavis County 73 kmMorgan County 93 kmRich County 95 kmBear Lake County 110 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
8.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Cache County, 53 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 888 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 7.3 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 2,100,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,500,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.3 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 41.6765, -112.3765. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Cache County, UT 53 km (33 mi) W of here earthquakes near Cache County
Box Elder County, UT 57 km (35 mi) E of here earthquakes near Box Elder County
Oneida County, ID 58 km (36 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Oneida County
Weber County, UT 61 km (38 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Weber County
Franklin County, ID 72 km (45 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Franklin County
Davis County, UT 73 km (45 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Davis County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 16 km SW of Thatcher, Utah
  2. 1.8 14 km SW of Thatcher, Utah
  3. 1.9 6 km SSW of Thatcher, Utah
  4. 3.1 5 km SSW of Thatcher, Utah
  5. 2.0 16 km SW of Thatcher, Utah
  6. 1.5 17 km SW of Thatcher, Utah
  7. 1.9 16 km SW of Thatcher, Utah
  8. 1.7 16 km SW of Thatcher, Utah
  9. 2.2 17 km SW of Thatcher, Utah
  10. 1.5 17 km SW of Thatcher, Utah
  11. 1.9 15 km SW of Thatcher, Utah
  12. 2.0 15 km SW of Thatcher, Utah
  13. 1.8 17 km SW of Thatcher, Utah
  14. 1.9 14 km SW of Thatcher, Utah
  15. 1.5 16 km SW of Thatcher, 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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