M1.6 earthquake Utah
A magnitude 1.6 earthquake struck in Utah on Fri, Mar 15, 2019, 6:44 PM MDT (00:44 UTC), 9 km (5 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.1 28 km W of Kanosh, Utah. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 1.6 (ML, local (Richter)), micro
- Magnitude from
- University of Utah Seismograph Stations
- Local time
- UTC
- 2019-03-16 00:44:22 UTC
- Depth
- 8.7 km (5.4 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 38.086° N, 112.791° W
- Region
- Utah
- Tsunami flag
- No
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
Did you feel it?
No one has reported feeling this quake to the USGS.
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Location uncertainty
- About 0.3 km horizontally, 1.0 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.07
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 85°
- Stations used
- 12
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 32 in the 60 days after this one and 24 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 2.48 km SSW of Kanosh, Utah · 2752 days ago · 9 km deep · 76 km away · felt by 1
- 1.625 km SE of Antimony, Utah · 2746 days ago · 16 km deep · 87 km away
- 2.4Utah · 2744 days ago · 5 km deep · 64 km away
- 2.528 km WNW of Milford, Utah · 2744 days ago · 5 km deep · 64 km away
- 1.77 km WSW of Circleville, Utah · 2740 days ago · 3 km deep · 39 km away
- 1.68 km SW of Circleville, Utah · 2740 days ago · 3 km deep · 41 km away
- 1.55 km WSW of Circleville, Utah · 2740 days ago · 2 km deep · 42 km away
- 1.84 km ENE of Marysvale, Utah · 2728 days ago · 2 km deep · 67 km away
- 2.028 km W of Kanosh, Utah · 2728 days ago · 3 km deep · 76 km away
- 1.928 km W of Kanosh, Utah · 2728 days ago · -2 km deep · 75 km away
- 2.129 km W of Kanosh, Utah · 2728 days ago · 0 km deep · 75 km away
- 4.128 km W of Kanosh, Utah · 2728 days ago · 1 km deep · 76 km away · felt by 3
- 3.129 km WSW of Kanosh, Utah · 2728 days ago · -1 km deep · 73 km away
- 2.229 km WSW of Kanosh, Utah · 2728 days ago · 15 km deep · 68 km away
- 1.629 km W of Kanosh, Utah · 2728 days ago · 6 km deep · 75 km away
- 2.727 km WSW of Kanosh, Utah · 2728 days ago · 0 km deep · 74 km away
- 1.926 km WSW of Kanosh, Utah · 2728 days ago · 3 km deep · 74 km away
- 1.929 km W of Kanosh, Utah · 2728 days ago · 0 km deep · 77 km away
- 2.128 km WSW of Kanosh, Utah · 2728 days ago · 3 km deep · 74 km away · felt by 2
- 1.728 km W of Kanosh, Utah · 2728 days ago · 2 km deep · 75 km away
- 1.830 km W of Kanosh, Utah · 2727 days ago · 1 km deep · 74 km away
- 2.031 km W of Kanosh, Utah · 2727 days ago · 3 km deep · 74 km away
- 1.527 km WSW of Kanosh, Utah · 2727 days ago · 3 km deep · 74 km away
- 1.929 km WSW of Kanosh, Utah · 2726 days ago · 6 km deep · 73 km away
- 2.19 km WNW of Panguitch, Utah · 2725 days ago · -1 km deep · 34 km away
- 1.730 km W of Kanosh, Utah · 2725 days ago · 0 km deep · 75 km away
- 1.523 km SSW of Kanosh, Utah · 2716 days ago · 15 km deep · 62 km away
- 1.617 km ENE of Milford, Utah · 2707 days ago · 0 km deep · 45 km away
- 1.86 km N of Joseph, Utah · 2702 days ago · 0 km deep · 82 km away
- 1.94 km W of Circleville, Utah · 2698 days ago · 8 km deep · 43 km away
- 1.610 km NNW of New Harmony, Utah · 2698 days ago · 13 km deep · 75 km away
- 2.09 km SSW of Milford, Utah · 2697 days ago · 0 km deep · 36 km away
Before
- 1.819 km SE of Minersville, Utah · 2763 days ago · 5 km deep · 3 km away · felt by 1
- 1.911 km SSW of Kanosh, Utah · 2764 days ago · 8 km deep · 74 km away · felt by 1
- 2.218 km SE of Minersville, Utah · 2765 days ago · 6 km deep · 2 km away · felt by 1
- 3.018 km SE of Minersville, Utah · 2765 days ago · 6 km deep · 2 km away · felt by 7
- 2.29 km SSW of Kanosh, Utah · 2766 days ago · 8 km deep · 76 km away
- 1.810 km SSW of Kanosh, Utah · 2771 days ago · 10 km deep · 75 km away
- 2.09 km WNW of Enoch, Utah · 2776 days ago · 13 km deep · 44 km away
- 1.69 km W of Enoch, Utah · 2776 days ago · 10 km deep · 46 km away
- 2.99 km WNW of Enoch, Utah · 2776 days ago · 11 km deep · 44 km away · felt by 25
- 2.420 km SW of Kanosh, Utah · 2779 days ago · -1 km deep · 68 km away
- 1.78 km SW of Kanosh, Utah · 2780 days ago · 5 km deep · 77 km away
- 1.68 km SW of Kanosh, Utah · 2780 days ago · 0 km deep · 77 km away
- 1.89 km SW of Kanosh, Utah · 2780 days ago · 6 km deep · 76 km away
- 1.68 km SW of Kanosh, Utah · 2780 days ago · 4 km deep · 77 km away
- 1.79 km SW of Kanosh, Utah · 2780 days ago · 6 km deep · 77 km away
- 1.69 km SW of Kanosh, Utah · 2780 days ago · -1 km deep · 76 km away
- 1.88 km SW of Kanosh, Utah · 2780 days ago · 6 km deep · 77 km away
- 4.08 km SW of Kanosh, Utah · 2780 days ago · 8 km deep · 77 km away · felt by 85
- 2.27 km SW of Kanosh, Utah · 2780 days ago · 4 km deep · 78 km away
- 3.39 km SSW of Kanosh, Utah · 2784 days ago · 8 km deep · 76 km away · felt by 19
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