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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.1ml

27 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada

· 12 km deep · released about 43 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mineral County 44 kmMono County 56 kmLyon County 72 kmAlpine County 81 kmDouglas County 82 kmTuolumne County 102 kmCarson City 109 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.1 (ml)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mineral County, 44 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

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

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 43 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 350,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 250,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 22× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 43 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 38.4181, -118.9069. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mineral County, NV 44 km (27 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Mono County, CA 56 km (35 mi) N of here earthquakes near Mono County
Lyon County, NV 72 km (45 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Alpine County, CA 81 km (50 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Douglas County, NV 82 km (51 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Tuolumne County, CA 102 km (64 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

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

  1. 1.5 36 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  2. 2.7 36 km ENE of Mono City, California
  3. 1.6 20 km ESE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  4. 1.7 27 km SW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  5. 1.6 30 km ENE of Bridgeport, California
  6. 1.8 28 km SW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  7. 1.7 7 km ENE of Walker, California
  8. 1.5 28 km ENE of Bridgeport, California
  9. 1.6 36 km ENE of Mono City, California
  10. 2.0 13 km W of Bridgeport, California
  11. 1.7 29 km SW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  12. 1.6 33 km NW of Benton, California
  13. 1.5 27 km SW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  14. 1.5 27 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  15. 1.5 29 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 — it released about 180,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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