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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.2ml

12 km W of Willard, Utah

· 13 km deep · released about 69 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Weber County 31 kmDavis County 43 kmCache County 50 kmMorgan County 62 kmBox Elder County 77 kmRich County 82 kmSalt Lake County 87 kmFranklin County 89 kmOneida County 89 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.2 (ml)
Depth
13 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Weber County, 31 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 533 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 69 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 220,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 150,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 14× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.2 about 69 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 41.4233, -112.1807. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Weber County, UT 31 km (19 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Weber County
Davis County, UT 43 km (27 mi) N of here earthquakes near Davis County
Cache County, UT 50 km (31 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Cache County
Morgan County, UT 62 km (39 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Morgan County
Box Elder County, UT 77 km (48 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Box Elder County
Rich County, UT 82 km (51 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Rich County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 13 km ESE of Millville, Utah
  2. 2.0 12 km E of Millville, Utah
  3. 2.6 12 km E of Millville, Utah
  4. 1.9 18 km SW of Howell, Utah
  5. 1.5 9 km ENE of Avon, Utah
  6. 2.1 3 km WNW of Huntsville, Utah
  7. 1.9 8 km WSW of Thatcher, Utah
  8. 1.5 10 km ENE of Mountain Green, Utah
  9. 1.9 7 km W of Thatcher, Utah
  10. 1.8 7 km W of Thatcher, Utah
  11. 1.8 15 km SW of Thatcher, Utah
  12. 1.8 16 km SW of Thatcher, Utah
  13. 1.6 6 km SW of Corinne, Utah
  14. 1.8 16 km SW of Thatcher, Utah
  15. 1.6 16 km SW of Thatcher, 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 4.4 on 2024-05-05 — it released about 1,600 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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