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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

9 km NNW of Kanarraville, Utah

· 1.6 km deep · released about 9.3 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
1.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Iron County, 33 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 697 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 37.6183, -113.2215. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Iron County, UT 33 km (21 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Iron County
Washington County, UT 46 km (29 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Washington County
Beaver County, UT 82 km (51 mi) S of here earthquakes near Beaver County
Piute County, UT 125 km (77 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Piute County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.6 7 km NNE of Central, Utah
  2. 1.8 8 km NNE of Central, Utah
  3. 1.7 11 km ENE of Kanarraville, Utah
  4. 1.9 11 km E of Kanarraville, Utah
  5. 2.3 11 km ENE of Kanarraville, Utah
  6. 2.0 12 km SSE of Kanarraville, Utah
  7. 2.0 12 km ENE of Kanarraville, Utah
  8. 2.5 12 km NNW of New Harmony, Utah
  9. 1.9 11 km NNW of Leeds, Utah
  10. 1.5 10 km ESE of Pine Valley, Utah
  11. 1.8 1 km NW of Toquerville, Utah
  12. 1.6 5 km WSW of Cedar City, Utah
  13. 1.7 13 km WNW of Enoch, Utah
  14. 2.0 9 km SW of New Harmony, Utah
  15. 2.4 9 km SW of New Harmony, 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 4.5 on 2024-07-29 — it released about 16,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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