quarry blast · reviewed by a seismologist
M 1.6md
5 km SSW of Bingham Canyon, Utah
- When
- Magnitude
- M 1.6 (md)
- Depth
- -2.0 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Salt Lake County, 26 km NE
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 11 days ago
This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.
USGS catalogues this as quarry blast, not an earthquake.
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.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,900,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,300,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 120× the energy of this one
- 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 40.5125, -112.1510. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salt Lake County, UT | 26 km (16 mi) | SW of here | earthquakes near Salt Lake County |
| Davis County, UT | 59 km (36 mi) | S of here | earthquakes near Davis County |
| Utah County, UT | 60 km (37 mi) | NW of here | earthquakes near Utah County |
| Morgan County, UT | 80 km (50 mi) | SW of here | earthquakes near Morgan County |
| Tooele County, UT | 82 km (51 mi) | E of here | earthquakes near Tooele County |
| Wasatch County, UT | 86 km (53 mi) | WNW of here | earthquakes near Wasatch County |
Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.
Aftershocks so far
2 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
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 5.7 on 2020-03-18 — it released about 1,300,000 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
- Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
- ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one
QuakeIndex does not issue warnings. For earthquake early warning see ShakeAlert.