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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

31 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada

· 9.1 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mineral County 39 kmMono County 40 kmLyon County 95 kmAlpine County 103 kmDouglas County 106 kmEsmeralda County 109 kmTuolumne County 112 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 1.6 (ml)
Depth
9.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mineral County, 39 km NE
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 7.6 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.6 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 38.2541, -118.7146. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mineral County, NV 39 km (24 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Mono County, CA 40 km (25 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Lyon County, NV 95 km (59 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Alpine County, CA 103 km (64 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Douglas County, NV 106 km (66 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Esmeralda County, NV 109 km (67 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 25 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  2. 1.5 26 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  3. 1.5 25 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  4. 1.5 26 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  5. 2.0 24 km NW of Benton, California
  6. 1.6 26 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  7. 1.5 25 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  8. 1.7 26 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  9. 1.5 26 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  10. 1.5 25 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  11. 1.6 7 km SW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  12. 1.9 23 km NW of Benton, California
  13. 1.7 38 km ENE of Mono City, California
  14. 1.5 37 km ENE of Mono City, California
  15. 1.7 23 km NW of Benton, California

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 1,000,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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