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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.8ml

41 km NW of Preston, Nevada

· 5.0 km deep · released about 15 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.8 (ml)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
White Pine County, 57 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3024 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 39.1337, -115.4530. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
White Pine County, NV 57 km (35 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near White Pine County
Eureka County, NV 117 km (73 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

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

  1. 1.8 21 km N of Preston, Nevada
  2. 1.7 20 km N of Preston, Nevada
  3. 2.3 1 km WSW of Ely, Nevada
  4. 2.9 6 km S of Ruth, Nevada
  5. 2.8 53 km SSE of Eureka, Nevada
  6. 2.7 52 km SSE of Eureka, Nevada
  7. 2.0 50 km SSE of Eureka, Nevada
  8. 1.7 49 km SSE of Eureka, Nevada
  9. 1.7 50 km WNW of Preston, Nevada
  10. 1.8 3 km WSW of Ruth, Nevada
  11. 3.0 53 km SSE of Eureka, Nevada
  12. 2.0 51 km SSE of Eureka, Nevada
  13. 1.7 6 km S of Ruth, Nevada
  14. 2.1 39 km NW of Ruth, Nevada
  15. 2.9 8 km SW of Ely, 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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