The August 30, 1962 earthquake
M5.8near Garden City, Utah
A magnitude 5.8 earthquake 9.3 miles deep, centred in Cache County. The 6th strongest in Utah’s record since 1900, and the strongest within 50 miles in the catalogue, which runs from 1900.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 5.8
- moment magnitude (mw)
- Depth
- 9.3 mi
- 15.0 km below the surface
- Local time
- Thursday, August 30, 1962
- 06:35 MST; 13:35 UTC
- In Utah’s record
- 6th
- strongest of 2,224 since 1900
USGS ANSS Comprehensive Earthquake Catalog, event iscgem875249 (“8 km W of Garden City, Utah”). The USGS event page carries the ShakeMap, felt reports and the official summary.
Counties and cities within 50 miles
Distance from the epicentre to each county boundary (zero when inside) and to each city centre.
Counties
- Cache CountyUT · inside
- Rich CountyUT · 1.2 mi
- Bear Lake CountyID · 4.4 mi
- Franklin CountyID · 4.4 mi
- Box Elder CountyUT · 28.3 mi
- Bannock CountyID · 30.3 mi
- Oneida CountyID · 32.0 mi
- Caribou CountyID · 33.5 mi
- Lincoln CountyWY · 33.7 mi
- Uinta CountyWY · 33.7 mi
- Weber CountyUT · 35.4 mi
- Morgan CountyUT · 39.3 mi
Cities, largest first
- LoganUT · 22.6 mi
- North OgdenUT · 49.3 mi
- Brigham CityUT · 41.5 mi
- SmithfieldUT · 18.6 mi
- TremontonUT · 38.9 mi
- North LoganUT · 19.7 mi
- Pleasant ViewUT · 49.8 mi
- HyrumUT · 27.8 mi
Earthquakes around the epicentre
362 earthquakes of magnitude 3 or more within 50 miles of this epicentre since 1973.
USGS ANSS Comprehensive Earthquake Catalog. Local time is the time zone of the county nearest the epicentre. Magnitudes are as the catalogue reports them.