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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.8ml

30 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada

· 11 km deep · released about 480 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mineral County 39 kmMono County 40 kmLyon County 94 kmAlpine County 102 kmDouglas County 105 kmEsmeralda County 110 kmTuolumne County 111 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 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Mineral County, 39 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1517 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 480 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 32,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 22,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.8 about 480 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 38.2599, -118.7283. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mineral County, NV 39 km (24 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Mono County, CA 40 km (25 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Lyon County, NV 94 km (58 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Alpine County, CA 102 km (63 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Douglas County, NV 105 km (65 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Esmeralda County, NV 110 km (68 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County

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. 1.5 14 km NNE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  2. 1.9 13 km NNE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  3. 2.2 29 km ENE of Lee Vining, California
  4. 1.7 2 km NW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  5. 2.8 2 km WNW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  6. 1.6 6 km N of Benton, California
  7. 2.4 29 km E of Mono City, California
  8. 1.6 California-Nevada border region
  9. 2.8 2 km NNE of Mono City, California
  10. 1.5 21 km E of Mono City, California
  11. 1.6 22 km NW of Benton, California
  12. 1.5 7 km N of Benton, California
  13. 3.2 18 km W of Mina, Nevada
  14. 1.5 3 km W of Walker Lake, Nevada
  15. 2.0 3 km W 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 180 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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