M1.6 earthquake 5 km WNW of Summit, Utah
A magnitude 1.6 earthquake struck 5 km WNW of Summit, Utah on Sat, Aug 27, 2022, 5:02 PM MDT (23:02 UTC), 3 km (2 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M2.5 2 km NNW of Circleville, 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
- 2022-08-27 23:02:17 UTC
- Depth
- 3.5 km (2.1 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 37.824° N, 112.993° 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 0.6 km horizontally, 31.6 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.08
- Depth from
- Operator assigned
- Station coverage gap
- 53°
- Stations used
- 17
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 18 in the 60 days after this one and 12 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 1.518 km ENE of Milford, Utah · 1491 days ago · 0 km deep · 75 km away
- 2.115 km NW of Beryl Junction, Utah · 1491 days ago · 7 km deep · 71 km away
- 1.917 km N of Panguitch, Utah · 1490 days ago · 5 km deep · 52 km away
- 2.18 km ESE of Panguitch, Utah · 1489 days ago · 9 km deep · 57 km away
- 2.19 km W of Enoch, Utah · 1485 days ago · 11 km deep · 12 km away
- 1.97 km S of Summit, Utah · 1480 days ago · 4 km deep · 11 km away
- 1.8Utah · 1477 days ago · -1 km deep · 75 km away
- 1.810 km SSE of Cedar City, Utah · 1477 days ago · 10 km deep · 26 km away
- 2.115 km NW of Parowan, Utah · 1471 days ago · 6 km deep · 15 km away
- 2.218 km E of Milford, Utah · 1470 days ago · 6 km deep · 66 km away
- 1.515 km WNW of Minersville, Utah · 1459 days ago · 8 km deep · 48 km away
- 2.06 km W of Circleville, Utah · 1453 days ago · 1 km deep · 68 km away
- 2.0Utah · 1452 days ago · 2 km deep · 69 km away
- 2.017 km SE of Beaver, Utah · 1451 days ago · 10 km deep · 56 km away
- 2.117 km SE of Beaver, Utah · 1451 days ago · 10 km deep · 56 km away
- 1.98 km WSW of Circleville, Utah · 1451 days ago · 2 km deep · 66 km away
- 1.919 km NE of Paragonah, Utah · 1447 days ago · 4 km deep · 38 km away
- 2.52 km NNW of Circleville, Utah · 1445 days ago · 6 km deep · 75 km away
Before
- 1.819 km NNW of Panguitch, Utah · 1510 days ago · 5 km deep · 49 km away
- 1.527 km SSW of Kanosh, Utah · 1511 days ago · 3 km deep · 92 km away
- 1.527 km SW of Kanosh, Utah · 1511 days ago · 1 km deep · 92 km away
- 2.120 km SSW of Kanosh, Utah · 1514 days ago · 2 km deep · 98 km away
- 1.910 km ENE of Kanarraville, Utah · 1514 days ago · 14 km deep · 30 km away
- 1.621 km SSW of Kanosh, Utah · 1514 days ago · 0 km deep · 97 km away
- 1.622 km SSW of Kanosh, Utah · 1514 days ago · 3 km deep · 97 km away
- 2.116 km WNW of Enoch, Utah · 1516 days ago · 11 km deep · 17 km away
- 1.68 km S of Beaver, Utah · 1516 days ago · 8 km deep · 53 km away
- 1.830 km W of Enterprise, Utah · 1522 days ago · 10 km deep · 100 km away
- 1.721 km SSW of Kanosh, Utah · 1523 days ago · 1 km deep · 97 km away
- 2.15 km NNW of Hildale, Utah · 1527 days ago · 17 km deep · 87 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event uu60512117. Read Sat, Oct 3, 2026, 11:23 PM UTC.