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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.1ml

17 km ENE of Hawthorne, Nevada

· 11 km deep · released about 43 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mineral County 9 kmLyon County 81 kmMono County 84 kmChurchill County 106 kmDouglas County 107 kmEsmeralda County 115 kmAlpine County 118 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 2.1 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mineral County, 9 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2936 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 43 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 350,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 250,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 22× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 43 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 38.5908, -118.4430. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mineral County, NV 9 km (5 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Lyon County, NV 81 km (50 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Mono County, CA 84 km (52 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Churchill County, NV 106 km (66 mi) S of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Douglas County, NV 107 km (66 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Esmeralda County, NV 115 km (71 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 12 km S of Hawthorne, Nevada
  2. 1.7 29 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  3. 2.1 9 km E of Hawthorne, Nevada
  4. 2.1 9 km E of Hawthorne, Nevada
  5. 1.5 17 km SSE of Schurz, Nevada
  6. 1.6 16 km NE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  7. 1.6 California-Nevada border region
  8. 1.8 17 km E of Schurz, Nevada
  9. 2.0 17 km E of Schurz, Nevada
  10. 1.8 29 km ENE of Bridgeport, California
  11. 1.6 17 km E of Schurz, Nevada
  12. 1.8 18 km E of Schurz, Nevada
  13. 1.5 17 km E of Schurz, Nevada
  14. 1.8 29 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  15. 1.5 17 km E of Schurz, 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 180,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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