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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5ml

28 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada

· 10 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mineral County 45 kmMono County 56 kmLyon County 72 kmAlpine County 80 kmDouglas County 81 kmTuolumne County 101 kmCarson City 109 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
10 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mineral County, 45 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2860 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 38.4161, -118.9207. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mineral County, NV 45 km (28 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Mono County, CA 56 km (35 mi) N of here earthquakes near Mono County
Lyon County, NV 72 km (44 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Alpine County, CA 80 km (50 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Douglas County, NV 81 km (50 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Tuolumne County, CA 101 km (63 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Tuolumne County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 21km SE of Bodie, CA
  2. 2.1 21km SE of Bodie, CA
  3. 1.5 23 km E of Mono City, California
  4. 1.5 23 km E of Mono City, California
  5. 1.6 20km SE of Bodie, CA
  6. 1.9 20km SE of Bodie, CA
  7. 1.6 22 km E of Mono City, California
  8. 1.6 23 km E of Mono City, California
  9. 1.8 20km SE of Bodie, CA
  10. 2.1 19km SE of Bodie, CA
  11. 2.7 20km SE of Bodie, CA
  12. 2.3 21km SE of Bodie, CA
  13. 1.5 20 km ENE of Mono City, California
  14. 1.5 23 km E of Mono City, California
  15. 1.8 29 km WSW of Hawthorne, 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 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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