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M 4.1ml

2 km WNW of Walker Lake, Nevada

· 11 km deep · released about 21 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mineral County 36 kmLyon County 54 kmDouglas County 77 kmMono County 83 kmAlpine County 88 kmCarson City 100 kmChurchill County 108 kmStorey County 108 km
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When
Magnitude
M 4.1 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
7 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
green
Nearest
Mineral County, 36 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1559 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon. 7 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 21 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 7,900× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 350× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 250× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.1 about 21 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 45× 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 38.6555, -118.7841. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mineral County, NV 36 km (22 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Lyon County, NV 54 km (34 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Douglas County, NV 77 km (48 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Mono County, CA 83 km (51 mi) N of here earthquakes near Mono County
Alpine County, CA 88 km (55 mi) E of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Carson City, NV 100 km (62 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Carson City

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 19 km SSE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  2. 2.4 2 km WNW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  3. 2.2 22 km ESE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  4. 1.6 22 km ESE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  5. 1.8 2 km WNW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  6. 1.7 22 km ESE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  7. 1.5 22 km ESE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  8. 1.5 2 km NW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  9. 2.6 22 km ESE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  10. 2.1 23 km ESE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  11. 1.8 2 km WNW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  12. 1.6 22 km ESE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  13. 2.4 22 km ESE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  14. 1.6 22 km ESE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  15. 1.8 3 km WNW of Walker Lake, 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 4.3 on 2016-03-21 — it released about 2 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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