18 km ESE of Mayfield, Utah

2024-07-24 23:08 UTC · 8.1 km deep · released about 490 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: 2024-07-24 23:08 UTC
Magnitude: M 2.8 (ml)
Depth: 8.1 km below the surface
Felt: 1 report · strongest reported intensity I
Nearest: Sanpete County, 38 km N
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS 719 days ago · we first saw it 719 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 490 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 31,000× the energy of this one
Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 22,000× the energy of this one
Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.9× the energy of this one
This earthquake M 2.8 about 490 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 39.0323, -111.5292. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

Place	Distance	Direction
Sanpete County, UT	38 km (24 mi)	S of here	earthquakes near Sanpete County
Sevier County, UT	40 km (25 mi)	NE of here	earthquakes near Sevier County
Emery County, UT	70 km (43 mi)	W of here	earthquakes near Emery County
Piute County, UT	93 km (58 mi)	NNE of here	earthquakes near Piute County
Wayne County, UT	98 km (61 mi)	NNW of here	earthquakes near Wayne County
Carbon County, UT	108 km (67 mi)	SW of here	earthquakes near Carbon County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

1.6 16 km NW of Emery, Utah 03:50 UTC
2.5 27 km W of Emery, Utah 03:07 UTC
1.6 10 km WNW of Fayette, Utah 13:13 UTC
1.8 8 km E of Ephraim, Utah 01:39 UTC
1.7 7 km E of Ephraim, Utah 23:20 UTC
2.3 18 km SE of Manti, Utah 06:22 UTC
2.1 18 km ESE of Sterling, Utah 07:07 UTC
1.6 10 km NNW of Aurora, Utah 03:18 UTC
1.9 11 km NW of Aurora, Utah 03:11 UTC
1.6 15 km WNW of Emery, Utah 13:51 UTC
1.5 16 km NW of Emery, Utah 06:09 UTC
1.5 22 km WSW of Emery, Utah 23:20 UTC
2.2 18 km E of Mayfield, Utah 01:17 UTC
1.9 5 km ENE of Sterling, Utah 22:10 UTC
1.8 22 km ESE of Salina, Utah 06:54 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 13:07 UTC. QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

On USGS

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