QuakeIndex

Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.1ml

42km NW of Stovepipe Wells, CA

· 1.5 km deep · released about 1,300 lb of TNT

Felt it? Tell USGS Check my area
10 km30 km60 km120 km N Inyo County 39 kmEsmeralda County 98 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 3.1 (ml)
Depth
1.5 km below the surface
Felt
4 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Inyo County, 39 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3078 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 4 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,300 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 250,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 11,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 7,900× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.1 about 1,300 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.4× more

Energy from the Gutenberg–Richter relation (log10E = 1.5M + 4.8), rounded to two figures; bar length is magnitude, which is already a logarithm of energy. Magnitudes of past earthquakes from the USGS catalogue.

Where

Epicentre 36.9133, -117.4233. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Inyo County, CA 39 km (24 mi) N of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Esmeralda County, NV 98 km (61 mi) S of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Nye County, NV 145 km (90 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Nye County

Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.

Aftershocks so far

48 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.

  1. 2.4 50 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada
  2. 1.5 55 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada
  3. 1.5 50 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada
  4. 1.5 51 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada
  5. 1.5 50 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada
  6. 2.4 50 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada
  7. 1.6 52 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada
  8. 3.1 51 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada
  9. 2.8 51 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada
  10. 1.8 50 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada
  11. 1.8 51 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada
  12. 1.5 62 km W of Beatty, Nevada
  13. 2.1 55 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada
  14. 1.5 56 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  15. 1.8 55 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of . QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

On USGS

QuakeIndex does not issue warnings. For earthquake early warning see ShakeAlert.