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M 3.0ml

Earthquake near Battle Mountain, NV

USGS: 10 km ENE of Crescent Valley, Nevada

10:54 pm PDT, Sep 1, 2017 · · 3.1 km deep · released about 950 lb of TNT

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When
10:54 pm PDT on 1 September 2017 ()
Where
46 km (29 mi) ESE of Battle Mountain, NV · earthquakes near Battle Mountain
Magnitude
M 3.0 (ml)
Depth
3.1 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Eureka County, 54 km SSE
Nearest mapped fault
Crescent Valley faults, 11 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 3.0 earthquake was recorded 46 km (29 mi) ESE of Battle Mountain, NV, at 10:54 pm PDT on 1 September 2017 (05:54 UTC). 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS. 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 950 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 16,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 11,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 950 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 one earthquake of M5 or more within 50 km:

  1. 5.1 21 km NNE of Crescent Valley, Nevada · 18 km N 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 40.4382, -116.4597. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection from the epicentre
Eureka County, NV 54 km (33 mi) SSE earthquakes near Eureka County
Lander County, NV 78 km (48 mi) SW earthquakes near Lander County
Elko County, NV 122 km (76 mi) NE earthquakes near Elko County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 19 km W of Carlin, Nevada
  2. 2.8 30 km WNW of Carlin, Nevada
  3. 2.4 15 km ENE of Crescent Valley, Nevada
  4. 2.8 30 km SSE of Carlin, Nevada
  5. 1.9 11 km SSW of Carlin, Nevada
  6. 3.5 21 km SW of Carlin, Nevada
  7. 1.6 9 km SSW of Carlin, Nevada
  8. 2.8 25 km SW of Carlin, Nevada
  9. 1.9 35 km ENE of Battle Mountain, Nevada
  10. 3.3 22 km NNE of Crescent Valley, Nevada
  11. 2.2 25 km NE of Crescent Valley, Nevada
  12. 1.8 18 km S of Battle Mountain, Nevada
  13. 1.9 15 km ESE of Carlin, Nevada
  14. 2.3 19 km NNE of Crescent Valley, Nevada
  15. 2.2 19 km NW of Crescent Valley, 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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