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M 2.5ml

31 km NW of Gabbs, Nevada

· 12 km deep · released about 170 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Churchill County 52 kmMineral County 66 kmLyon County 89 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.5 (ml)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Churchill County, 52 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2719 days ago

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 170 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 89,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 63,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 5.6× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.5 about 170 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 39.0768, -118.1638. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Churchill County, NV 52 km (32 mi) S of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Mineral County, NV 66 km (41 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Lyon County, NV 89 km (56 mi) E of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Storey County, NV 124 km (77 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Storey County
Lander County, NV 133 km (82 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Lander County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 33 km NE of Gabbs, Nevada
  2. 2.0 33 km NE of Gabbs, Nevada
  3. 1.7 52.7 km SSE of Gabbs, NV
  4. 1.6 35 km ENE of Schurz, Nevada
  5. 2.0 6 km SE of Gabbs, Nevada
  6. 1.6 38 km ENE of Schurz, Nevada
  7. 1.5 28 km NW of Gabbs, Nevada
  8. 2.0 28 km ESE of Schurz, Nevada
  9. 2.2 34 km ENE of Schurz, Nevada
  10. 1.5 55 km E of Fallon Station, Nevada
  11. 1.5 38 km ENE of Schurz, Nevada
  12. 1.8 32 km SE of Fallon Station, Nevada
  13. 1.9 21 km S of Gabbs, Nevada
  14. 1.5 34 km NW of Gabbs, Nevada
  15. 2.3 30 km W of Gabbs, 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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