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M 1.8ml

8 km SW of Silver Peak, Nevada

· 17 km deep · released about 15 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Esmeralda County 10 kmMono County 106 kmMineral County 110 kmNye County 113 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 1.8 (ml)
Depth
17 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Esmeralda County, 10 km NE
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3285 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 15 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 710,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 63× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 15 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 37.7048, -117.7002. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Esmeralda County, NV 10 km (6 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Mono County, CA 106 km (66 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Mineral County, NV 110 km (68 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Nye County, NV 113 km (70 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Nye 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. 2.1 27 km SSE of Silver Peak, Nevada
  2. 1.8 20 km S of Goldfield, Nevada
  3. 1.8 20 km SE of Silver Peak, Nevada
  4. 1.9 16 km SW of Silver Peak, Nevada
  5. 2.4 60km ENE of Big Pine, CA
  6. 1.8 54 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  7. 1.5 6km SE of Deep Springs, CA
  8. 1.6 48 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  9. 1.7 48 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  10. 1.5 54 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  11. 1.8 20km NNW of Deep Springs, CA
  12. 2.6 20km NNW of Deep Springs, CA
  13. 1.6 14 km NNW of Dyer, Nevada
  14. 1.7 5km ESE of Deep Springs, CA
  15. 1.5 13km NNW of Deep Springs, CA

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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