M2.1 earthquake 18 km ESE of Sterling, Utah
A magnitude 2.1 earthquake struck 18 km ESE of Sterling, Utah on Thu, Dec 11, 2025, 12:07 AM MST (07:07 UTC), 6 km (4 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M2.5 27 km W of Emery, Utah. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 2.1 (ML, local (Richter)), micro
- Magnitude from
- University of Utah Seismograph Stations
- Local time
- UTC
- 2025-12-11 07:07:50 UTC
- Depth
- 6.3 km (3.9 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 39.142° N, 111.483° 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, 0.6 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.19
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 49°
- Stations used
- 33
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 22 in the 60 days after this one and 10 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 2.318 km SE of Manti, Utah · 297 days ago · 5 km deep · 1 km away
- 1.77 km E of Ephraim, Utah · 296 days ago · 5 km deep · 24 km away
- 1.88 km E of Ephraim, Utah · 296 days ago · 0 km deep · 24 km away
- 1.619 km NE of Scipio, Utah · 289 days ago · 0 km deep · 49 km away
- 1.92 km WSW of Fairview, Utah · 288 days ago · 6 km deep · 53 km away
- 1.610 km WNW of Fayette, Utah · 288 days ago · 14 km deep · 43 km away
- 1.61 km WSW of Fairview, Utah · 288 days ago · 4 km deep · 53 km away
- 1.610 km SW of Nephi, Utah · 276 days ago · 9 km deep · 67 km away
- 1.512 km ENE of Fairview, Utah · 276 days ago · 2 km deep · 60 km away
- 2.310 km SW of Nephi, Utah · 276 days ago · 6 km deep · 68 km away
- 1.94 km WSW of Clear Creek, Utah · 273 days ago · -1 km deep · 59 km away
- 2.527 km W of Emery, Utah · 272 days ago · 5 km deep · 30 km away
- 1.616 km NW of Emery, Utah · 250 days ago · -1 km deep · 16 km away
- 1.66 km WSW of Clear Creek, Utah · 248 days ago · -1 km deep · 59 km away
- 1.56 km S of Clear Creek, Utah · 248 days ago · 0 km deep · 56 km away
- 1.53 km NNE of Joseph, Utah · 247 days ago · 12 km deep · 82 km away
- 2.17 km WSW of Clear Creek, Utah · 244 days ago · -1 km deep · 58 km away
- 2.27 km WSW of Clear Creek, Utah · 244 days ago · -2 km deep · 57 km away
- 1.67 km WSW of Clear Creek, Utah · 243 days ago · -2 km deep · 57 km away
- 2.39 km E of Fairview, Utah · 240 days ago · -2 km deep · 55 km away
- 1.734 km W of Green River, Utah · 240 days ago · 12 km deep · 82 km away
- 1.51 km NW of Kenilworth, Utah · 239 days ago · 2 km deep · 84 km away
Before
- 1.66 km WNW of Helper, Utah · 302 days ago · 11 km deep · 79 km away
- 1.57 km NW of Helper, Utah · 305 days ago · 2 km deep · 82 km away
- 1.610 km NE of Fountain Green, Utah · 315 days ago · 6 km deep · 62 km away
- 1.95 km NE of Koosharem, Utah · 315 days ago · 8 km deep · 73 km away
- 1.81 km NNW of Kenilworth, Utah · 316 days ago · -3 km deep · 85 km away
- 1.917 km NNW of Fairview, Utah · 318 days ago · 8 km deep · 70 km away
- 2.02 km NNE of Kenilworth, Utah · 319 days ago · -2 km deep · 86 km away
- 1.610 km NNW of Aurora, Utah · 325 days ago · -1 km deep · 47 km away
- 1.911 km NW of Aurora, Utah · 325 days ago · 2 km deep · 49 km away
- 1.615 km WNW of Emery, Utah · 327 days ago · -1 km deep · 18 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event uu80124771. Read Mon, Oct 5, 2026, 8:28 AM UTC.