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M 3.0ml

9 km NNE of Scipio, Utah

· 2.0 km deep · released about 1,100 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Sanpete County 43 kmSevier County 68 kmJuab County 76 kmUtah County 95 kmMillard County 101 kmPiute County 110 km
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
Magnitude
M 3.0 (ml)
Depth
2.0 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Measured shaking
intensity III (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Sanpete County, 43 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 410 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,100 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 300,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 13,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 9,400× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 1,100 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 39.3208, -112.0665. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Sanpete County, UT 43 km (26 mi) W of here earthquakes near Sanpete County
Sevier County, UT 68 km (42 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Sevier County
Juab County, UT 76 km (47 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Juab County
Utah County, UT 95 km (59 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Utah County
Millard County, UT 101 km (62 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Millard County
Piute County, UT 110 km (68 mi) N of here earthquakes near Piute County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.2 13 km NE of Scipio, Utah
  2. 1.9 18 km S of Levan, Utah
  3. 1.7 7 km NNW of Fayette, Utah
  4. 1.9 16 km S of Levan, Utah
  5. 1.9 3 km E of Manti, Utah
  6. 1.5 5 km W of Redmond, Utah
  7. 1.6 8 km E of Oak City, Utah
  8. 1.6 0 km SW of Centerfield, Utah
  9. 1.6 21 km NE of Leamington, Utah
  10. 1.8 21 km WNW of Levan, Utah
  11. 2.0 15 km NW of Fayette, Utah
  12. 1.6 15 km NW of Fayette, Utah
  13. 2.4 15 km NW of Fayette, Utah
  14. 1.9 7 km SE of Holden, Utah
  15. 2.3 10 km SW of Nephi, 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.

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