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M 3.3ml

22 km NNE of Crescent Valley, Nevada

· 11 km deep · released about 1.3 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Eureka County 69 kmLander County 92 kmElko County 110 km
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When
Magnitude
M 3.3 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Measured shaking
intensity III (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Eureka County, 69 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2413 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 1.3 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 130,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 5,600× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 4,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.3 about 1.3 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2.8× 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 40.5818, -116.4342. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Eureka County, NV 69 km (43 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Eureka County
Lander County, NV 92 km (57 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Lander County
Elko County, NV 110 km (69 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Elko 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. 1.6 11 km WNW of Carlin, Nevada
  2. 2.0 26 km W of Carlin, Nevada
  3. 2.1 27 km SSE of Carlin, Nevada
  4. 1.9 18 km NW of Carlin, Nevada
  5. 2.6 28 km SSE of Carlin, Nevada
  6. 1.6 32 km W of Carlin, Nevada
  7. 1.8 41 km NW of Carlin, Nevada
  8. 2.8 27 km W of Carlin, Nevada
  9. 3.8 17 km E of Crescent Valley, Nevada
  10. 2.6 17 km SE of Carlin, Nevada
  11. 2.9 18 km ESE of Crescent Valley, Nevada
  12. 1.5 28 km NNW of Carlin, Nevada
  13. 2.0 14 km E of Crescent Valley, Nevada
  14. 1.8 19 km N of Crescent Valley, Nevada
  15. 1.7 41 km NE of Battle Mountain, 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.

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