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M 3.3ml

Earthquake near Carlin, NV

USGS: 28 km S of Carlin, Nevada

10:44 pm PST, Nov 10, 2018 · · 7.7 km deep · released about 1.3 tons of TNT

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When
10:44 pm PST on 10 November 2018 ()
Where
29 km (18 mi) S of Carlin, NV · earthquakes near Carlin
Magnitude
M 3.3 (ml)
Depth
7.7 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Measured shaking
intensity III (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Eureka County, 55 km SSW
Nearest mapped fault
Cortez Mountains fault, 11 km from its surface trace — near is not the same as on
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2811 days ago

A magnitude 3.3 earthquake was recorded 29 km (18 mi) S of Carlin, NV, at 10:44 pm PST on 10 November 2018 (06:44 UTC). 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS. This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1.3 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 130,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 5,600× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 4,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.3 about 1.3 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2.8× more

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.

For this area

No earthquake of M4 or more has been recorded within 50 km since our catalogue begins in 2016.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists one earthquake of M5 or more within 50 km:

  1. 5.1 21 km NNE of Crescent Valley, Nevada · 35 km WNW of this epicentre

Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.

Where

Epicentre 40.4561, -116.1253. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection from the epicentre
Eureka County, NV 55 km (34 mi) SSW earthquakes near Eureka County
Lander County, NV 100 km (62 mi) SW earthquakes near Lander County
Elko County, NV 100 km (62 mi) NE earthquakes near Elko County
White Pine County, NV 156 km (97 mi) SE earthquakes near White Pine County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 11 km WNW of Carlin, Nevada
  2. 2.0 26 km W of Carlin, Nevada
  3. 2.1 27 km SSE of Carlin, Nevada
  4. 1.9 18 km NW of Carlin, Nevada
  5. 2.6 28 km SSE of Carlin, Nevada
  6. 1.6 32 km W of Carlin, Nevada
  7. 2.8 27 km W of Carlin, Nevada
  8. 3.8 17 km E of Crescent Valley, Nevada
  9. 2.6 17 km SE of Carlin, Nevada
  10. 2.9 18 km ESE of Crescent Valley, Nevada
  11. 2.0 14 km E of Crescent Valley, Nevada
  12. 1.8 19 km N of Crescent Valley, Nevada
  13. 1.6 7 km WNW of Elko, Nevada
  14. 1.5 14 km NNE of Carlin, Nevada
  15. 1.9 22 km W of Carlin, 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.

On USGS

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