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M 2.8ml

16 km WSW of Preston, Nevada

· 1.2 km deep · released about 480 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.8 (ml)
Depth
1.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
White Pine County, 68 km NNE
Nearest mapped fault
Preston fault, 9 km from its surface trace — near is not the same as on
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3401 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 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 38.8611, -115.2387. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
White Pine County, NV 68 km (43 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near White Pine County
Nye County, NV 146 km (91 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Nye County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 3 km WSW of Ruth, Nevada
  2. 1.8 2 km SW of Ruth, Nevada
  3. 1.5 7 km SW of Ely, Nevada
  4. 2.7 7 km SW of Ely, Nevada
  5. 1.8 3 km WSW of Ruth, Nevada
  6. 2.2 54 km SSE of Eureka, Nevada
  7. 1.8 6 km WSW of Ruth, Nevada
  8. 2.0 4 km WSW of Ruth, Nevada
  9. 1.9 4 km W of Ruth, Nevada
  10. 2.0 2 km SW of Ruth, Nevada
  11. 2.3 4 km SW of Ruth, Nevada
  12. 1.5 2 km WSW of Ruth, Nevada
  13. 1.5 43 km SW of Lund, Nevada
  14. 1.9 41 km SW of Lund, Nevada
  15. 2.2 42 km SW of Lund, 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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