65 km SSW of Rachel, Nevada

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 16 km (10 mi) from the epicentre. Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.

USGS catalogues this as explosion, not an earthquake.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 30 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 500,000× the energy of this one
2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 350,000× the energy of this one
3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 32× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 30 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km since 2016 was M 4.1 on 2017-07-17 — about 1,400 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 143 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:

1. 6.4 52 km NE of Beatty, Nevada · 36 km WNW of this epicentre Oct 28, 1975
2. 6.3 46 km NNE of Beatty, Nevada · 41 km WNW of this epicentre Feb 12, 1976
3. 6.3 51 km NNE of Beatty, Nevada · 42 km WNW of this epicentre Mar 14, 1976
4. 6.2 53 km NE of Beatty, Nevada · 33 km NW of this epicentre Jun 26, 1975
5. 6.2 57 km NE of Beatty, Nevada · 31 km NW of this epicentre Jan 3, 1976

Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.

Where

Epicentre 37.1118, -116.0661. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

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

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 1.7 51 km WNW of Indian Springs, Nevada 10:52 UTC
2. 2.1 33 km SW of Rachel, Nevada 10:49 UTC
3. 1.5 33 km SW of Rachel, Nevada 09:10 UTC
4. 2.2 39 km NW of Indian Springs, Nevada 16:36 UTC
5. 1.6 52 km WSW of Alamo, Nevada 09:46 UTC
6. 1.5 57 km WSW of Rachel, Nevada 00:17 UTC
7. 2.5 47 km ENE of Beatty, Nevada 04:37 UTC
8. 2.3 52 km NE of Beatty, Nevada 22:26 UTC
9. 1.8 39 km WSW of Rachel, Nevada 01:14 UTC
10. 1.6 35 km NW of Indian Springs, Nevada 05:52 UTC
11. 1.7 39 km WNW of Indian Springs, Nevada 15:54 UTC
12. 1.8 36 km WNW of Indian Springs, Nevada 19:44 UTC
13. 1.6 56 km WSW of Rachel, Nevada 07:31 UTC
14. 1.5 58 km ENE of Beatty, Nevada 23:41 UTC
15. 1.8 61 km SSW of Rachel, Nevada 20:57 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 13:03 UTC. QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

On USGS

• The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
• Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
• ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

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