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M 1.9ml

9 km WNW of Enoch, Utah

· 13 km deep · released about 19 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Iron County 20 kmBeaver County 61 kmWashington County 70 kmPiute County 104 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.9 (ml)
Depth
13 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Iron County, 20 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 678 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 19 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 790,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 560,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 50× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 19 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 37.8150, -113.1155. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Iron County, UT 20 km (12 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Iron County
Beaver County, UT 61 km (38 mi) S of here earthquakes near Beaver County
Washington County, UT 70 km (43 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Washington County
Piute County, UT 104 km (65 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Piute County
Kane County, UT 129 km (80 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Kane County
Sevier County, UT 154 km (96 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Sevier 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. 2.0 25 km S of Brian Head, Utah
  2. 1.5 16 km NW of Parowan, Utah
  3. 1.5 13 km E of Kanarraville, Utah
  4. 1.8 11 km ENE of Kanarraville, Utah
  5. 2.0 12 km SSE of Cedar City, Utah
  6. 2.3 11 km ENE of Kanarraville, Utah
  7. 1.6 11 km ENE of Kanarraville, Utah
  8. 2.5 4 km NW of Cedar City, Utah
  9. 1.9 12 km ENE of Kanarraville, Utah
  10. 1.6 1 km SSW of Newcastle, Utah
  11. 1.7 11 km ENE of Kanarraville, Utah
  12. 1.9 11 km E of Kanarraville, Utah
  13. 2.3 11 km ENE of Kanarraville, Utah
  14. 2.0 12 km SSE of Kanarraville, Utah
  15. 2.0 12 km ENE of Kanarraville, 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 7,900 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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