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M 1.7ml

9 km E of Cove, Utah

· 2.6 km deep · released about 9.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Franklin County 24 kmCache County 27 kmBear Lake County 46 kmRich County 54 kmOneida County 72 kmWeber County 80 kmLincoln County 88 kmCaribou County 91 kmBannock County 91 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
2.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Franklin County, 24 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 837 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 9.6 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 1,600,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,100,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 99× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 9.6 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 41.9785, -111.6945. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Franklin County, ID 24 km (15 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Franklin County
Cache County, UT 27 km (17 mi) N of here earthquakes near Cache County
Bear Lake County, ID 46 km (28 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Bear Lake County
Rich County, UT 54 km (34 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Rich County
Oneida County, ID 72 km (45 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Oneida County
Weber County, UT 80 km (50 mi) N of here earthquakes near Weber County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 15 km E of Providence, Utah
  2. 2.6 15 km W of Paris, Idaho
  3. 1.6 13 km ESE of Millville, Utah
  4. 1.9 16 km E of Providence, Utah
  5. 2.0 12 km E of Millville, Utah
  6. 2.6 12 km E of Millville, Utah
  7. 1.6 2 km E of Malad City, Idaho
  8. 2.0 2 km ESE of Malad City, Idaho
  9. 1.7 4 km NE of Malad City, Idaho
  10. 2.4 2 km E of Malad City, Idaho
  11. 1.5 3 km ENE of Malad City, Idaho
  12. 1.6 3 km E of Malad City, Idaho
  13. 2.6 2 km ESE of Malad City, Idaho
  14. 1.8 2 km ESE of Malad City, Idaho
  15. 2.4 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.

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