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M 3.2ml

22 km ESE of Hawthorne, Nevada

· 4.3 km deep · released about 1,900 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mineral County 6 kmMono County 75 kmLyon County 94 kmEsmeralda County 101 kmDouglas County 117 kmChurchill County 119 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 3.2 (ml)
Depth
4.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Measured shaking
intensity III (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Mineral County, 6 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1461 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 1,900 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 7,900× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 5,600× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1,900 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2× 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 38.4705, -118.3779. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mineral County, NV 6 km (4 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Mono County, CA 75 km (47 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Lyon County, NV 94 km (58 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Esmeralda County, NV 101 km (63 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Douglas County, NV 117 km (73 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Churchill County, NV 119 km (74 mi) S of here earthquakes near Churchill County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 3 km W of Walker Lake, Nevada
  2. 4.3 3 km W of Walker Lake, Nevada
  3. 2.6 3 km W of Walker Lake, Nevada
  4. 2.6 12 km ENE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  5. 2.2 29 km SW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  6. 1.7 28 km SW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  7. 1.9 29 km SW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  8. 1.9 California-Nevada border region
  9. 1.9 19 km SSE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  10. 1.8 3 km WNW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  11. 1.6 3 km WNW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  12. 1.8 3 km WNW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  13. 1.6 23 km ESE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  14. 2.8 30 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  15. 2.4 30 km SSW of Hawthorne, 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 45 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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