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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.8ml

5 km SE of Joseph, Utah

· 7.2 km deep · released about 15 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Piute County 29 kmSevier County 35 kmMillard County 93 kmBeaver County 97 kmSanpete County 101 kmGarfield County 106 kmWayne County 109 km
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
Magnitude
M 1.8 (ml)
Depth
7.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Piute County, 29 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 789 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 15 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 730,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 65× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 15 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 38.5952, -112.1713. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Piute County, UT 29 km (18 mi) N of here earthquakes near Piute County
Sevier County, UT 35 km (22 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Sevier County
Millard County, UT 93 km (58 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Millard County
Beaver County, UT 97 km (60 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Beaver County
Sanpete County, UT 101 km (63 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Sanpete County
Garfield County, UT 106 km (66 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Garfield County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 29 km SSW of Kanosh, Utah
  2. 1.6 26 km SW of Kanosh, Utah
  3. 1.8 12 km SW of Kanosh, Utah
  4. 1.7 28 km SW of Kanosh, Utah
  5. 1.9 8 km W of Junction, Utah
  6. 1.8 16 km SW of Kanosh, Utah
  7. 2.2 8 km ENE of Beaver, Utah
  8. 2.7 8 km ENE of Beaver, Utah
  9. 1.6 7 km ENE of Beaver, Utah
  10. 2.1 8 km ENE of Beaver, Utah
  11. 1.5 7 km S of Joseph, Utah
  12. 1.7 14 km WSW of Kanosh, Utah
  13. 1.5 3 km NNE of Joseph, Utah
  14. 1.6 14 km NW of Junction, Utah
  15. 1.8 24 km SSW of Kanosh, 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.0 on 2019-02-20 — it released about 2,400 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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