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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

15 km WNW of Orangeville, Utah

· -2.1 km deep · released about 8.1 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Sanpete County 33 kmEmery County 53 kmCarbon County 68 kmSevier County 80 kmUtah County 100 kmWasatch County 115 kmWayne 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 1.6 (ml)
Depth
-2.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Sanpete County, 33 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 160 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 8.1 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 1,300,000× 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 8.1 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 39.2975, -111.2117. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Sanpete County, UT 33 km (20 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Sanpete County
Emery County, UT 53 km (33 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Emery County
Carbon County, UT 68 km (42 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Carbon County
Sevier County, UT 80 km (50 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Sevier County
Utah County, UT 100 km (62 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Utah County
Wasatch County, UT 115 km (72 mi) S of here earthquakes near Wasatch County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.1 5 km SSW of Hiawatha, Utah
  2. 1.0 23 km SE of Castle Dale, Utah
  3. 2.3 5 km E of Mount Pleasant, Utah
  4. 1.8 3 km SSE of Mount Pleasant, Utah
  5. 1.9 3 km E of Manti, Utah
  6. 2.4 4 km WSW of Clear Creek, Utah
  7. 1.6 15 km NW of Emery, Utah
  8. 2.1 19 km WNW of Orangeville, 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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