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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.7ml

30 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada

· 9.1 km deep · released about 340 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 40 kmMineral County 41 kmLyon County 93 kmAlpine County 99 kmDouglas County 103 kmTuolumne County 109 kmEsmeralda County 112 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 2.7 (ml)
Depth
9.1 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Mono County, 40 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3009 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 340 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 45,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 32,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2.8× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.7 about 340 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 38.2643, -118.7529. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 40 km (25 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Mineral County, NV 41 km (25 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Lyon County, NV 93 km (58 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Alpine County, CA 99 km (62 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Douglas County, NV 103 km (64 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Tuolumne County, CA 109 km (68 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Tuolumne County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 30 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  2. 2.5 27 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  3. 2.2 28 km SW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  4. 2.4 29 km SW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  5. 2.2 27 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  6. 2.5 26 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  7. 3.7 28 km ENE of Bridgeport, California
  8. 2.5 29 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  9. 3.2 28 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  10. 3.8 27 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  11. 5.6 28 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  12. 5.6 29 km SW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  13. 3.3 3 km WNW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  14. 1.6 29 km ENE of Lee Vining, California
  15. 1.8 26 km ENE of Mono City, California

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 4.5 on 2016-07-07 — it released about 500 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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