20 km ENE of Panguitch, Utah

2026-04-28 17:27 UTC · 7.1 km deep · released about 31 lb of TNT

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: 2026-04-28 17:27 UTC
Magnitude: M 2.0 (ml)
Depth: 7.1 km below the surface
Felt: no reports yet
Nearest: Piute County, 49 km N
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS 152 days ago · we first saw it 152 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 31 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.

Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 480,000× the energy of this one
Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 340,000× the energy of this one
Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 31× the energy of this one
This earthquake M 2.0 about 31 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

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Epicentre 37.9040, -112.2212. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

Place	Distance	Direction
Piute County, UT	49 km (30 mi)	S of here	earthquakes near Piute County
Garfield County, UT	68 km (42 mi)	W of here	earthquakes near Garfield County
Kane County, UT	79 km (49 mi)	NNW of here	earthquakes near Kane County
Iron County, UT	95 km (59 mi)	E of here	earthquakes near Iron County
Sevier County, UT	100 km (62 mi)	SSW of here	earthquakes near Sevier County
Beaver County, UT	102 km (64 mi)	ESE of here	earthquakes near Beaver County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

1.3 15 km SE of Hatch, Utah 19:42 UTC
1.6 18 km WSW of Panguitch, Utah 14:31 UTC
1.5 1 km SW of Circleville, Utah 12:51 UTC
1.8 1 km W of Circleville, Utah 09:34 UTC
1.7 2 km SW of Circleville, Utah 09:28 UTC
1.6 10 km SW of Circleville, Utah 18:36 UTC
1.5 9 km NW of Junction, Utah 03:00 UTC
1.7 2 km WSW of Circleville, Utah 16:00 UTC
1.9 3 km W of Circleville, Utah 13:43 UTC
1.8 3 km WSW of Circleville, Utah 12:55 UTC
1.6 1 km WSW of Circleville, Utah 10:17 UTC
1.8 2 km W of Circleville, Utah 08:24 UTC
1.7 2 km SW of Circleville, Utah 01:32 UTC
1.8 3 km WSW of Circleville, Utah 00:48 UTC
1.7 4 km W of Circleville, Utah 22:07 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 14:20 UTC. 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 4.4 on 2020-10-03 — it released about 4,100 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
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ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

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