QuakeIndex

Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.6ml

36 km ESE of Eureka, Nevada

· 0.0 km deep · released about 240 lb of TNT

Felt it? Tell USGS Check my area
10 km30 km60 km120 km N White Pine County 60 kmEureka County 92 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 2.6 (ml)
Depth
0.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Measured shaking
intensity III (ShakeMap)
Nearest
White Pine County, 60 km E
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.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 240 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 63,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 45,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 240 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 39.3402, -115.5939. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
White Pine County, NV 60 km (37 mi) W of here earthquakes near White Pine County
Eureka County, NV 92 km (57 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Eureka County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 4.1 30 km W of Preston, Nevada
  2. 2.2 35 km SE of Eureka, Nevada
  3. 2.1 29 km SE of Eureka, Nevada
  4. 2.0 53 km WNW of Preston, Nevada
  5. 1.5 8 km SW of Ruth, Nevada
  6. 3.0 36 km SSW of Eureka, Nevada
  7. 2.2 Nevada
  8. 1.9 4 km WNW of Eureka, Nevada
  9. 3.6 54 km SSE of Eureka, Nevada
  10. 2.4 24 km WNW of Ruth, Nevada
  11. 1.9 61 km W of Preston, Nevada
  12. 1.6 41 km SE of Eureka, Nevada
  13. 1.5 30 km NNE of Eureka, Nevada
  14. 2.1 23 km SW of Ruth, Nevada
  15. 1.8 35 km WNW of Ruth, 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 4.0 on 2016-06-03 — it released about 130 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

QuakeIndex does not issue warnings. For earthquake early warning see ShakeAlert.