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M 2.2ml

Earthquake near Battle Mountain, NV

USGS: 24 km SW of Battle Mountain, Nevada

6:27 am PDT, May 2, 2017 · · 12 km deep · released about 60 lb of TNT

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When
6:27 am PDT on 2 May 2017 ()
Where
24 km (15 mi) SW of Battle Mountain, NV · earthquakes near Battle Mountain
Magnitude
M 2.2 (ml)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lander County, 68 km S
Nearest mapped fault
Shoshone Range fault, 17 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 3014 days ago

A magnitude 2.2 earthquake was recorded 24 km (15 mi) SW of Battle Mountain, NV, at 6:27 am PDT on 2 May 2017 (13:27 UTC). This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 60 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 250,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 16× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.2 about 60 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.

For this area

No earthquake of M4 or more has been recorded within 50 km since our catalogue begins in 2016.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 3 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km:

  1. 6.8 The 1915 Pleasant Valley, Nevada Earthquake · 45 km SW of this epicentre
  2. 6.0 Pleasant Valley, Nevada (Foreshock) · 29 km W of this epicentre
  3. 5.1 31 km WSW of Battle Mountain, Nevada · 8 km W of this epicentre

Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.

Where

Epicentre 40.5060, -117.1553. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection from the epicentre
Lander County, NV 68 km (42 mi) S earthquakes near Lander County
Eureka County, NV 95 km (59 mi) SE earthquakes near Eureka County
Pershing County, NV 106 km (66 mi) W earthquakes near Pershing County
Humboldt County, NV 129 km (80 mi) NW earthquakes near Humboldt County
Churchill County, NV 143 km (89 mi) SW earthquakes near Churchill County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 Nevada
  2. 3.1 5 km NE of Valmy, Nevada
  3. 2.4 18 km SSW of Crescent Valley, Nevada
  4. 1.6 32 km SSW of Battle Mountain, Nevada
  5. 1.5 62 km SE of Imlay, Nevada
  6. 3.2 11 km NW of Valmy, Nevada
  7. 1.6 24 km WSW of Battle Mountain, Nevada
  8. 2.1 7 km SW of Valmy, Nevada
  9. 2.8 41 km SW of Valmy, Nevada
  10. 1.8 18 km S of Battle Mountain, Nevada
  11. 2.2 19 km NW of Crescent Valley, Nevada
  12. 1.8 41 km SSW of Golconda, Nevada
  13. 3.5 33 km S of Golconda, Nevada
  14. 1.6 48 km SW of Battle Mountain, Nevada
  15. 2.1 63 km SSW of Battle Mountain, 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.

On USGS

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