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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.3ml

14 km NNW of Walker Lake, Nevada

· 6.6 km deep · released about 85 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lyon County 42 kmMineral County 46 kmDouglas County 68 kmAlpine County 84 kmCarson City 90 kmMono County 94 kmStorey County 96 kmChurchill County 100 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 2.3 (ml)
Depth
6.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lyon County, 42 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2972 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 85 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 130,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 11× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 85 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 38.7603, -118.8419. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lyon County, NV 42 km (26 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Mineral County, NV 46 km (28 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Douglas County, NV 68 km (42 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Alpine County, CA 84 km (52 mi) E of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Carson City, NV 90 km (56 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Carson City
Mono County, CA 94 km (58 mi) N of here earthquakes near Mono 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. 1.8 17 km E of Schurz, Nevada
  2. 2.0 17 km E of Schurz, Nevada
  3. 1.8 29 km ENE of Bridgeport, California
  4. 1.6 17 km E of Schurz, Nevada
  5. 1.8 18 km E of Schurz, Nevada
  6. 1.5 17 km E of Schurz, Nevada
  7. 1.8 29 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  8. 1.5 17 km E of Schurz, Nevada
  9. 2.6 29 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  10. 2.2 30 km SW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  11. 1.7 29 km ENE of Bridgeport, California
  12. 2.2 30 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  13. 1.6 27 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  14. 1.6 29 km WSW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  15. 1.6 28 km WSW of Hawthorne, 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 5.6 on 2016-12-28 — it released about 89,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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