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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.9ml

27 km S of Hawthorne, Nevada

· 7.3 km deep · released about 21 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mineral County 35 kmMono County 44 kmLyon County 94 kmAlpine County 104 kmDouglas County 106 kmEsmeralda County 107 kmTuolumne County 116 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 1.9 (ml)
Depth
7.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mineral County, 35 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2558 days ago

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

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 21 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 710,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 500,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 45× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 21 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 38.2816, -118.6799. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mineral County, NV 35 km (22 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Mono County, CA 44 km (27 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Lyon County, NV 94 km (58 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Alpine County, CA 104 km (65 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Douglas County, NV 106 km (66 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Esmeralda County, NV 107 km (67 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 35 km N of Benton, California
  2. 1.8 36 km NNE of Benton, California
  3. 1.7 35 km NNE of Benton, California
  4. 1.5 30 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  5. 1.7 34 km S of Hawthorne, Nevada
  6. 2.1 36 km NNE of Benton, California
  7. 1.8 34 km NNE of Benton, California
  8. 1.6 34 km N of Benton, California
  9. 2.2 35 km NNE of Benton, California
  10. 1.7 35 km NNE of Benton, California
  11. 2.4 10km N of Lee Vining, CA
  12. 1.7 35 km NNE of Benton, California
  13. 1.8 23 km ESE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  14. 1.6 16km SW of Bodie, CA
  15. 1.7 27 km WSW of Hawthorne, 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 5.6 on 2016-12-28 — it released about 350,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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