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M 3.1ml

51 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada

· 5.0 km deep · released about 1,300 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Esmeralda County 56 kmInyo County 81 kmNye County 117 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 3.1 (ml)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Esmeralda County, 56 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2693 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 1,300 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 250,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 11,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 7,900× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.1 about 1,300 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.4× 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.

Where

Epicentre 37.2918, -117.4850. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Esmeralda County, NV 56 km (35 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Inyo County, CA 81 km (51 mi) N of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Nye County, NV 117 km (73 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Nye County
Tulare County, CA 165 km (103 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Tulare 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. 2.4 19 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  2. 1.6 53 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  3. 2.2 8km ESE of Deep Springs, CA
  4. 1.7 22 km SW of Silver Peak, Nevada
  5. 1.5 65 km ENE of Independence, California
  6. 1.6 67 km ENE of Independence, California
  7. 2.3 58 km NNE of Keeler, California
  8. 1.6 36 km ESE of Big Pine, California
  9. 2.1 8km ESE of Deep Springs, CA
  10. 1.6 59 km NNE of Keeler, California
  11. 1.6 33 km ESE of Big Pine, California
  12. 1.7 60 km E of Big Pine, California
  13. 1.5 62 km W of Beatty, Nevada
  14. 2.0 8km ESE of Deep Springs, CA
  15. 2.2 8km ESE of Deep Springs, 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.

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