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M 1.5ml

33 km N of Dyer, Nevada

· 4.2 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Esmeralda County 49 kmMono County 65 kmMineral County 66 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
4.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Esmeralda County, 49 km ESE
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 5.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 180× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.4 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 37.9650, -118.1341. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Esmeralda County, NV 49 km (30 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Mono County, CA 65 km (41 mi) E of here earthquakes near Mono County
Mineral County, NV 66 km (41 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Lyon County, NV 150 km (93 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Lyon County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 23 km E of Mina, Nevada
  2. 2.0 39km SSW of Qualeys Camp, NV
  3. 2.8 18 km WSW of Mina, Nevada
  4. 1.5 35 km SW of Mina, Nevada
  5. 1.6 38km SSW of Qualeys Camp, NV
  6. 1.5 20 km NW of Silver Peak, Nevada
  7. 2.3 34 km N of Dyer, Nevada
  8. 1.6 25 km SW of Mina, Nevada
  9. 2.2 8 km W of Mina, Nevada
  10. 1.8 40km NNE of Toms Place, CA
  11. 1.5 33 km N of Dyer, Nevada
  12. 1.8 24 km NNW of Dyer, Nevada
  13. 2.1 23 km NNW of Dyer, Nevada
  14. 2.1 34 km N of Dyer, Nevada
  15. 2.3 33 km N of Dyer, 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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