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M 2.8md

16km N of Deep Springs, CA

· 4.1 km deep · released about 450 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Esmeralda County 42 kmMono County 90 kmMineral County 118 kmInyo County 118 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 2.8 (md)
Depth
4.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Esmeralda County, 42 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1226 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 450 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 34,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 24,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2.1× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.8 about 450 lb of TNT

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 37.5157, -117.9813. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Esmeralda County, NV 42 km (26 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Mono County, CA 90 km (56 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Mineral County, NV 118 km (73 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Inyo County, CA 118 km (73 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Inyo County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.9 15km N of Deep Springs, CA
  2. 2.2 22 km NW of Silver Peak, Nevada
  3. 1.5 58 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  4. 2.1 23 km NNW of Dyer, Nevada
  5. 2.0 20 km SSE of Dyer, Nevada
  6. 1.6 4km WSW of Wilkerson, CA
  7. 1.8 19 km SSE of Dyer, Nevada
  8. 2.0 16km N of Deep Springs, CA
  9. 1.9 California-Nevada border region
  10. 1.7 19 km SSE of Dyer, Nevada
  11. 1.8 19 km SSE of Dyer, Nevada
  12. 1.9 California-Nevada border region
  13. 1.6 20 km SSE of Dyer, Nevada
  14. 2.1 14km N of Deep Springs, CA
  15. 1.8 20 km SSE of Dyer, 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.8 on 2022-01-06 — it released about 900 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

On USGS

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