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M 2.8ml

20 km E of Mount Charleston, Nevada

· 8.2 km deep · released about 480 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.8 (ml)
Depth
8.2 km below the surface
Felt
175 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Clark County, 37 km ESE
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. 175 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 36.2846, -115.4212. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Clark County, NV 37 km (23 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Clark County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 13 km ENE of Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada
  2. 1.7 8 km W of Blue Diamond, Nevada
  3. 1.6 8 km SSE of Enterprise, Nevada
  4. 1.6 23 km E of Indian Springs, Nevada
  5. 1.5 23 km E of Indian Springs, Nevada
  6. 1.7 16 km E of Indian Springs, Nevada
  7. 2.1 11 km S of Enterprise, Nevada
  8. 2.7 38 km NNW of Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada
  9. 2.4 9 km SSE of Enterprise, Nevada
  10. 1.5 15 km NE of Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada
  11. 1.5 10 km SW of Indian Springs, Nevada
  12. 2.0 9 km SE of Enterprise, Nevada
  13. 1.7 17 km SE of Enterprise, Nevada
  14. 1.7 16 km SE of Enterprise, Nevada
  15. 2.0 11 km SSE of Enterprise, 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.

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