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M 1.5ml

42 km E of Gabbs, Nevada

· 0.3 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mineral County 92 kmChurchill County 106 kmEsmeralda County 118 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
0.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mineral County, 92 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2935 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.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 180× the energy of this one
  4. 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

Epicentre 38.8289, -117.4339. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mineral County, NV 92 km (57 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Churchill County, NV 106 km (66 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Esmeralda County, NV 118 km (73 mi) N of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Lander County, NV 124 km (77 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Lander County
Nye County, NV 128 km (80 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Nye County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 49 km ESE of Gabbs, Nevada
  2. 1.6 60 km N of Tonopah, Nevada
  3. 1.5 50 km S of Kingston, Nevada
  4. 1.8 62 km SSW of Kingston, Nevada
  5. 1.7 56 km S of Kingston, Nevada
  6. 1.5 51 km NNW of Tonopah, Nevada
  7. 1.6 51 km S of Kingston, Nevada
  8. 1.5 55 km S of Kingston, Nevada
  9. 1.6 57 km N of Tonopah, Nevada
  10. 1.5 49 km S of Kingston, Nevada
  11. 1.6 55 km S of Kingston, Nevada
  12. 1.5 50 km S of Kingston, Nevada
  13. 1.6 51 km S of Kingston, Nevada
  14. 1.8 53 km S of Kingston, Nevada
  15. 1.8 59 km N of Tonopah, 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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