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M 1.6ml

19 km W of Veyo, Utah

· 6.6 km deep · released about 7.8 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Washington County 39 kmIron County 83 kmLincoln County 90 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
6.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Washington County, 39 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 510 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 7.8 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,900,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 120× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.8 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 37.3415, -113.9178. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Washington County, UT 39 km (24 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Washington County
Iron County, UT 83 km (52 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Iron County
Lincoln County, NV 90 km (56 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Beaver County, UT 128 km (79 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Beaver County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 0.9 11 km NW of Veyo, Utah
  2. 2.1 5 km ESE of Pine Valley, Utah
  3. 1.9 27 km SE of Caliente, Nevada
  4. 2.3 28 km SE of Caliente, Nevada
  5. 1.6 27 km SSE of Caliente, Nevada
  6. 1.8 24 km SSE of Caliente, Nevada
  7. 1.5 8 km SSW of Leeds, Utah
  8. 1.6 8 km SSW of Leeds, Utah
  9. 1.8 29 km SE of Caliente, Nevada
  10. 1.6 28 km NNW of Beaver Dam, Arizona
  11. 1.9 13 km SSW of Enterprise, Utah
  12. 2.4 7 km NNW of Leeds, Utah
  13. 1.5 33 km W of Veyo, Utah
  14. 1.7 37 km SSE of Caliente, Nevada
  15. 1.6 39 km SE of Caliente, Nevada

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 4.2 on 2016-01-15 — it released about 8,800 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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