16 km WNW of Emery, Utah

2024-08-30 15:06 UTC · -0.9 km deep · released about 9 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: 2024-08-30 15:06 UTC
Magnitude: M 1.6 (ml)
Depth: -0.9 km below the surface
Felt: no reports yet
Nearest: Sanpete County, 44 km NNW
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS 754 days ago · we first saw it 754 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 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.

Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,700,000× the energy of this one
Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,200,000× the energy of this one
Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 110× the energy of this one
This earthquake M 1.6 about 9 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 39.0002, -111.4155. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

Place	Distance	Direction
Sanpete County, UT	44 km (27 mi)	SSE of here	earthquakes near Sanpete County
Sevier County, UT	44 km (28 mi)	NE of here	earthquakes near Sevier County
Emery County, UT	60 km (37 mi)	W of here	earthquakes near Emery County
Wayne County, UT	90 km (56 mi)	NNW of here	earthquakes near Wayne County
Piute County, UT	96 km (60 mi)	NE of here	earthquakes near Piute County
Carbon County, UT	103 km (64 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

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

1.9 3 km E of Manti, Utah 08:29 UTC
1.7 31 km N of Fremont, Utah 15:17 UTC
1.5 5 km W of Redmond, Utah 19:30 UTC
1.6 15 km NW of Emery, Utah 08:25 UTC
2.1 19 km WNW of Orangeville, Utah 17:01 UTC
1.7 21 km WSW of Emery, Utah 08:17 UTC
1.6 15 km WNW of Orangeville, Utah 18:51 UTC
1.6 0 km SW of Centerfield, Utah 04:14 UTC
1.9 30 km N of Fremont, Utah 22:04 UTC
1.6 16 km NW of Emery, Utah 03:50 UTC
2.5 27 km W of Emery, Utah 03:07 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

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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