The September 5, 1962 earthquake
M5.0near Magna, Utah
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake 4.3 miles deep, centred in Salt Lake County. The 21st strongest in Utah’s record since 1900, and the strongest within 50 miles since a magnitude 5.3 on May 22, 1910.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 5.0
- moment magnitude (mw)
- Depth
- 4.3 mi
- 7.0 km below the surface
- Local time
- Wednesday, September 5, 1962
- 09:04 MST; 16:04 UTC
- In Utah’s record
- 21st
- strongest of 2,224 since 1900
USGS ANSS Comprehensive Earthquake Catalog, event ushis2571 (“1 km NE of Magna, 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
- Salt Lake CountyUT · inside
- Tooele CountyUT · 5.9 mi
- Davis CountyUT · 9.5 mi
- Utah CountyUT · 17.5 mi
- Morgan CountyUT · 19.8 mi
- Summit CountyUT · 23.5 mi
- Wasatch CountyUT · 27.8 mi
- Weber CountyUT · 29.8 mi
- Box Elder CountyUT · 32.4 mi
- Cache CountyUT · 48.3 mi
- Juab CountyUT · 49.2 mi
Cities, largest first
- Salt Lake CityUT · 9.2 mi
- West Valley CityUT · 4.6 mi
- West JordanUT · 9.3 mi
- ProvoUT · 40.3 mi
- LehiUT · 23.9 mi
- OremUT · 35.6 mi
- SandyUT · 16.2 mi
- OgdenUT · 35.7 mi
- South JordanUT · 12.5 mi
- LaytonUT · 25.6 mi
- Eagle MountainUT · 28.3 mi
- MillcreekUT · 13.8 mi
Earthquakes around the epicentre
65 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.