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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.6md

11 km ENE of Kanarraville, Utah

· 12 km deep · released about 230 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Iron County 44 kmWashington County 51 kmBeaver County 89 kmKane County 114 kmPiute County 118 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 2.6 (md)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
3 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Iron County, 44 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 159 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 3 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 230 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 65,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 46,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4.1× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 230 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 37.5665, -113.0575. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Iron County, UT 44 km (27 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Iron County
Washington County, UT 51 km (32 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Washington County
Beaver County, UT 89 km (56 mi) S of here earthquakes near Beaver County
Kane County, UT 114 km (71 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Kane County
Piute County, UT 118 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

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

  1. 1.1 18 km WNW of Cedar City, Utah
  2. 0.5 10 km E of Springdale, Utah
  3. 1.6 12 km ESE of Kanarraville, Utah
  4. 2.1 5 km ESE of Pine Valley, Utah
  5. 1.6 18 km WSW of Panguitch, Utah
  6. 1.8 2 km N of Summit, Utah
  7. 1.5 5 km WNW of Orderville, Utah
  8. 1.6 8 km NW of Enoch, Utah
  9. 1.7 10 km N of New Harmony, Utah
  10. 2.8 9 km N of New Harmony, Utah
  11. 1.6 13 km WNW of Paragonah, Utah
  12. 1.6 11 km E of Kanarraville, Utah
  13. 1.5 8 km NNE of Glendale, 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 660 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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