23 km WNW of Hanksville, Utah

2024-11-10 17:17 UTC · 3.6 km deep · released about 680 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: 2024-11-10 17:17 UTC
Magnitude: M 2.9 (ml)
Depth: 3.6 km below the surface
Felt: 1 report · strongest reported intensity I
Measured shaking: intensity IV (ShakeMap)
Nearest: Wayne County, 18 km S
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS 611 days ago · we first saw it 611 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 680 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 22,000× the energy of this one
Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 16,000× the energy of this one
Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.4× the energy of this one
This earthquake M 2.9 about 680 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 38.4217, -110.9720. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

Place	Distance	Direction
Wayne County, UT	18 km (11 mi)	N of here	earthquakes near Wayne County
Emery County, UT	69 km (43 mi)	SSW of here	earthquakes near Emery County
Garfield County, UT	78 km (48 mi)	NNE of here	earthquakes near Garfield County
Sevier County, UT	81 km (51 mi)	ESE of here	earthquakes near Sevier County
Piute County, UT	101 km (63 mi)	E of here	earthquakes near Piute County
Sanpete County, UT	118 km (73 mi)	SSE of here	earthquakes near Sanpete County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

1.8 28 km NE of Fremont, Utah 08:11 UTC
2.0 27 km NNE of Fremont, Utah 11:22 UTC
1.6 28 km ENE of Torrey, Utah 16:57 UTC
1.5 28 km E of Torrey, Utah 19:44 UTC
4.0 29 km ENE of Torrey, Utah 04:32 UTC
2.2 28 km E of Torrey, Utah 01:18 UTC
2.6 28 km NE of Boulder Town, Utah 00:30 UTC
1.6 22 km SE of Hanksville, Utah 08:09 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 22:58 UTC. QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

On USGS

The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
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ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

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