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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0md

25 km S of Brian Head, Utah

· 22 km deep · released about 30 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Washington County 59 kmIron County 63 kmKane County 95 kmBeaver County 105 kmPiute County 117 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 2.0 (md)
Depth
22 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Washington County, 59 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 248 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 30 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 5.8 500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 32× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 30 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 37.4637, -112.8688. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Washington County, UT 59 km (37 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Washington County
Iron County, UT 63 km (39 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Iron County
Kane County, UT 95 km (59 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Kane County
Beaver County, UT 105 km (65 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Beaver County
Piute County, UT 117 km (73 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Piute County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 10 km NE of Hildale, Utah
  2. 1.8 2 km N of Summit, Utah
  3. 1.5 5 km WNW of Orderville, Utah
  4. 1.6 8 km NW of Enoch, Utah
  5. 1.7 10 km N of New Harmony, Utah
  6. 2.8 9 km N of New Harmony, Utah
  7. 2.2 7 km WNW of Kanab, Utah
  8. 1.6 10 km NE of Hildale, Utah
  9. 1.6 11 km E of Kanarraville, Utah
  10. 1.7 11 km NE of Hildale, Utah
  11. 1.5 8 km NNE of Glendale, Utah
  12. 2.6 11 km NE of Hildale, Utah
  13. 1.9 7 km NE of Hildale, Utah
  14. 1.8 13 km SSE of Kanarraville, Utah
  15. 1.6 13 km SSE 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 5,100 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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