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M 5.6ml

28 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada

· 12 km deep · released about 3.8 kilotons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mineral County 44 kmMono County 53 kmLyon County 75 kmAlpine County 83 kmDouglas County 84 kmTuolumne County 102 kmCarson City 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 5.6 (ml)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
11559 reports · strongest reported intensity VI
Measured shaking
intensity VII (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
green
Nearest
Mineral County, 44 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1608 days ago

This was a moderate earthquake. Shaking at this size can damage poorly built structures close to the epicentre. 11559 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 3.8 kilotons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 6.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 45× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1.4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 5.6 about 3.8 kilotons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 7,900× 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 38.3904, -118.8972. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mineral County, NV 44 km (27 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Mono County, CA 53 km (33 mi) N of here earthquakes near Mono County
Lyon County, NV 75 km (47 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Alpine County, CA 83 km (51 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Douglas County, NV 84 km (52 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Tuolumne County, CA 102 km (63 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

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

  1. 3.0 28 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  2. 2.3 28 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  3. 2.1 28 km ENE of Bridgeport, California
  4. 1.9 26 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  5. 2.0 28 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  6. 1.8 27 km SW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  7. 1.9 30 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  8. 2.4 26 km SW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  9. 2.0 28 km SW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  10. 3.1 30 km SW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  11. 3.0 29 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  12. 2.4 28 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  13. 2.4 27 km ENE of Bridgeport, California
  14. 3.0 29 km ENE of Bridgeport, California
  15. 2.6 28 km WSW 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 5.6 on 2016-12-28.

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

On USGS

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