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M 1.7ml

12 km SE of Goldfield, Nevada

· 10 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
10 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Esmeralda County, 47 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2823 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 11 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 89× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 37.6283, -117.1329. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Esmeralda County, NV 47 km (29 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Nye County, NV 70 km (44 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Nye County
Inyo County, CA 121 km (75 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Mineral County, NV 150 km (93 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Mineral County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 35 km S of Goldfield, Nevada
  2. 1.9 35 km SSE of Goldfield, Nevada
  3. 2.8 34 km S of Goldfield, Nevada
  4. 3.6 35 km S of Goldfield, Nevada
  5. 1.9 19 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  6. 1.8 19 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  7. 2.4 19 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  8. 1.9 49 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada
  9. 1.7 51 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada
  10. 2.9 54 km ESE of Goldfield, Nevada
  11. 2.8 53 km ESE of Goldfield, Nevada
  12. 4.1 54 km ESE of Goldfield, Nevada
  13. 2.2 30 km S of Goldfield, Nevada
  14. 1.5 12 km SSE of Tonopah, Nevada
  15. 1.6 50 km SSW of Goldfield, 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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