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M 1.5ml

9 km ENE of Hildale, Utah

· 17 km deep · released about 5.7 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
17 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Washington County, 59 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 688 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 5.7 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,600,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,900,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 170× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.7 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 37.0445, -112.8792. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Washington County, UT 59 km (37 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Washington County
Kane County, UT 98 km (61 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Kane County
Iron County, UT 103 km (64 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Iron County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 8 km S of Fredonia, Arizona
  2. 2.2 7 km SSE of Fredonia, Arizona
  3. 2.2 8 km S of Cane Beds, Arizona
  4. 1.8 9 km NW of Orderville, Utah
  5. 1.6 9 km NW of Orderville, Utah
  6. 1.6 9 km E of Springdale, Utah
  7. 1.5 9 km E of Springdale, Utah
  8. 1.9 5 km SSW of Kanab, Utah
  9. 2.0 12 km SSE of Kanarraville, Utah
  10. 2.3 7 km NE of Hildale, Utah
  11. 2.1 17 km S of Centennial Park, Arizona
  12. 1.5 4 km SE of Fredonia, Arizona
  13. 1.9 4 km ESE of Fredonia, Arizona
  14. 1.7 17 km NE of Hildale, Utah
  15. 1.8 16 km ESE of Springdale, 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 27,000 times the energy of this one.

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

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