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M 2.8ml

53 km ESE of Goldfield, Nevada

· 15 km deep · released about 480 lb of TNT

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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 2.8 (ml)
Depth
15 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity I
Nearest
Nye County, 58 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2578 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 480 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 32,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 22,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.8 about 480 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 37.4790, -116.7091. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Nye County, NV 58 km (36 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Nye County
Esmeralda County, NV 88 km (55 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Inyo County, CA 119 km (74 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Inyo County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 36 km SSE of Goldfield, Nevada
  2. 1.5 36 km SSE of Goldfield, Nevada
  3. 2.1 37 km SSE of Goldfield, Nevada
  4. 2.4 California-Nevada border region
  5. 1.6 41 km SSE of Goldfield, Nevada
  6. 2.4 57 km ESE of Goldfield, Nevada
  7. 1.6 48 km NW of Beatty, Nevada
  8. 1.6 37 km SSE of Goldfield, Nevada
  9. 1.5 52 km ESE of Goldfield, Nevada
  10. 1.5 40 km SSE of Goldfield, Nevada
  11. 1.7 Nevada
  12. 1.9 34 km ENE of Goldfield, Nevada
  13. 1.5 57 km WSW of Rachel, Nevada
  14. 2.3 52 km NE of Beatty, Nevada
  15. 1.5 21 km S 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.1 on 2019-06-11 — it released about 89 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

On USGS

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