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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

6 km ESE of Howell, Utah

· 4.7 km deep · released about 9.3 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Oneida County 48 kmCache County 52 kmBox Elder County 60 kmFranklin County 64 kmWeber County 69 kmDavis County 82 kmRich County 95 kmMorgan County 100 kmBannock County 104 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
4.7 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Oneida County, 48 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 698 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 9.3 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 3.0 100× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 9.3 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 41.7680, -112.3703. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Oneida County, ID 48 km (30 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Oneida County
Cache County, UT 52 km (32 mi) W of here earthquakes near Cache County
Box Elder County, UT 60 km (37 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Box Elder County
Franklin County, ID 64 km (40 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Franklin County
Weber County, UT 69 km (43 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Weber County
Davis County, UT 82 km (51 mi) N of here earthquakes near Davis County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 2 km E of Malad City, Idaho
  2. 1.9 18 km SW of Howell, Utah
  3. 3.1 12 km SSW of Snowville, Utah
  4. 1.9 11 km SSW of Snowville, Utah
  5. 1.9 11 km SSW of Snowville, Utah
  6. 1.9 8 km WSW of Thatcher, Utah
  7. 1.9 7 km W of Thatcher, Utah
  8. 1.8 7 km W of Thatcher, Utah
  9. 1.9 2 km WNW of Lewiston, Utah
  10. 2.1 12 km SSW of Snowville, Utah
  11. 1.8 15 km SW of Thatcher, Utah
  12. 1.8 16 km SW of Thatcher, Utah
  13. 1.6 6 km SW of Corinne, Utah
  14. 1.8 16 km SW of Thatcher, Utah
  15. 1.9 29 km SSW of Snowville, 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 4.4 on 2024-05-05 — it released about 12,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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