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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5ml

32 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada

· 11 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 39 kmMineral County 41 kmLyon County 95 kmAlpine County 101 kmDouglas County 105 kmEsmeralda County 110 kmTuolumne County 110 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 1.5 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports
Nearest
Mono County, 39 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1512 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

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 38.2482, -118.7353. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 39 km (24 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Mineral County, NV 41 km (25 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Lyon County, NV 95 km (59 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Alpine County, CA 101 km (63 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Douglas County, NV 105 km (65 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Esmeralda County, NV 110 km (68 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda 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. 2.2 30 km SW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  2. 1.5 21km SSE of Bodie, CA
  3. 1.6 21km SE of Bodie, CA
  4. 1.5 30km E of Lee Vining, CA
  5. 1.6 22 km SSE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  6. 1.6 22 km SSE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  7. 2.2 41km N of Toms Place, CA
  8. 2.2 41km N of Toms Place, CA
  9. 1.7 29 km ENE of Bridgeport, California
  10. 2.2 30 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  11. 1.6 27 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  12. 1.8 21km SE of Bodie, CA
  13. 1.6 29 km WSW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  14. 1.6 21km SSE of Bodie, CA
  15. 1.6 20km SSE of Bodie, CA

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 1,400,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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