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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.7ml

44 km NNW of Austin, Nevada

· 2.2 km deep · released about 340 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lander County 24 kmChurchill County 88 kmEureka County 91 kmPershing County 114 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 2.7 (ml)
Depth
2.2 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Lander County, 24 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2556 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 340 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 45,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 32,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2.8× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.7 about 340 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 39.8419, -117.3202. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lander County, NV 24 km (15 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Lander County
Churchill County, NV 88 km (54 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Eureka County, NV 91 km (56 mi) W of here earthquakes near Eureka County
Pershing County, NV 114 km (71 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Pershing County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.7 20 km ENE of Austin, Nevada
  2. 2.4 48 km NW of Austin, Nevada
  3. 2.5 20 km NE of Austin, Nevada
  4. 3.2 57 km ESE of Lovelock, Nevada
  5. 3.0 19 km NE of Austin, Nevada
  6. 2.0 63 km E of Lovelock, Nevada
  7. 2.6 60 km ESE of Lovelock, Nevada
  8. 2.0 57 km WNW of Austin, Nevada
  9. 1.7 56 km WNW of Austin, Nevada
  10. 1.5 2 km NNW of Austin, Nevada
  11. 2.6 55 km ESE of Lovelock, Nevada
  12. 1.7 26 km W of Austin, Nevada
  13. 2.5 64 km ESE of Lovelock, Nevada
  14. 2.1 17 km NNE of Austin, Nevada
  15. 2.0 65 km E of Lovelock, 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 2019-04-28 — it released about 130 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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