30 km NW of Gabbs, Nevada

2018-09-05 18:31 UTC · 9.3 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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: 2018-09-05 18:31 UTC
Magnitude: M 1.5 (ml)
Depth: 9.3 km below the surface
Felt: no reports yet
Nearest: Churchill County, 56 km N
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS 2944 days ago · we first saw it 2944 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 5.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800,000× the energy of this one
Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000,000× the energy of this one
Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 180× the energy of this one
This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.4 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

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Epicentre 39.0340, -118.2027. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

Place	Distance	Direction
Churchill County, NV	56 km (35 mi)	S of here	earthquakes near Churchill County
Mineral County, NV	60 km (38 mi)	NNE of here	earthquakes near Mineral County
Lyon County, NV	86 km (53 mi)	E of here	earthquakes near Lyon County
Storey County, NV	122 km (76 mi)	ESE of here	earthquakes near Storey County
Lander County, NV	138 km (86 mi)	SW of here	earthquakes near Lander County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

2.3 30 km W of Gabbs, Nevada 07:18 UTC
1.5 32 km WNW of Gabbs, Nevada 08:12 UTC
1.8 34 km NNW of Gabbs, Nevada 06:23 UTC
1.8 54 km E of Fallon Station, Nevada 21:31 UTC
1.7 50 km N of Gabbs, Nevada 11:56 UTC
2.0 23 km NE of Hawthorne, Nevada 20:28 UTC
2.2 25 km NW of Gabbs, Nevada 01:16 UTC
2.6 25 km NW of Gabbs, Nevada 10:04 UTC
1.9 20 km NW of Gabbs, Nevada 18:57 UTC
1.5 34 km ENE of Schurz, Nevada 18:55 UTC
1.8 19 km ESE of Fallon Station, Nevada 10:55 UTC
1.5 40 km ENE of Schurz, Nevada 18:34 UTC
1.5 24 km NE of Schurz, Nevada 01:51 UTC
2.4 18 km E of Schurz, Nevada 21:49 UTC
1.7 7 km NE of Schurz, Nevada 23:30 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 22:51 UTC. 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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