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M 2.0ml

20 km ESE of Evanston, Wyoming

· 28 km deep · released about 33 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Uinta County 15 kmSummit County 45 kmRich County 62 kmMorgan County 73 kmWeber County 97 kmCache County 102 kmWasatch County 106 kmDuchesne County 108 kmDaggett County 109 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (ml)
Depth
28 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Uinta County, 15 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 671 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 33 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 450,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 320,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 29× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 33 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 41.2312, -110.7207. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Uinta County, WY 15 km (9 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Uinta County
Summit County, UT 45 km (28 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Summit County
Rich County, UT 62 km (38 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Rich County
Morgan County, UT 73 km (46 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Morgan County
Weber County, UT 97 km (60 mi) E of here earthquakes near Weber County
Cache County, UT 102 km (63 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Cache County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 24 km SE of Evanston, Wyoming
  2. 1.9 42 km SSE of Evanston, Wyoming
  3. 2.0 42 km SSE of Evanston, Wyoming
  4. 2.2 42 km SSE of Evanston, Wyoming
  5. 2.2 42 km SSE of Evanston, Wyoming
  6. 1.6 43 km NE of Samak, Utah
  7. 2.1 42 km ENE of Oakley, Utah
  8. 2.7 41 km ENE of Oakley, Utah
  9. 2.2 42 km ENE of Oakley, Utah
  10. 1.9 41 km SSE of Evanston, Wyoming
  11. 3.0 41 km SSE of Evanston, Wyoming
  12. 2.0 43 km NE of Samak, Utah
  13. 1.6 42 km NE of Samak, Utah
  14. 2.0 42 km ENE of Oakley, Utah
  15. 4.7 40 km S of Evanston, Wyoming

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.

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