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M 1.9ml

35 km ENE of Battle Mountain, Nevada

· 8.6 km deep · released about 21 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Eureka County 97 kmLander County 109 kmElko County 110 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.9 (ml)
Depth
8.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Eureka County, 97 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2488 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 40.8168, -116.5887. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Eureka County, NV 97 km (60 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Eureka County
Lander County, NV 109 km (68 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Lander County
Elko County, NV 110 km (68 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Elko 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. 3.6 57 km NE of Valmy, Nevada
  2. 2.6 59 km NE of Valmy, Nevada
  3. 3.4 54 km NE of Valmy, Nevada
  4. 2.8 27 km W of Carlin, Nevada
  5. 1.6 49 km NNW of Carlin, Nevada
  6. 2.4 58 km NW of Carlin, Nevada
  7. 3.8 17 km E of Crescent Valley, Nevada
  8. 2.9 Nevada
  9. 1.5 28 km NNW of Carlin, Nevada
  10. 2.0 14 km E of Crescent Valley, Nevada
  11. 1.8 19 km N of Crescent Valley, Nevada
  12. 3.1 5 km NE of Valmy, Nevada
  13. 1.7 41 km NE of Battle Mountain, Nevada
  14. 1.5 35 km NW of Carlin, Nevada
  15. 1.6 50 km NE of Valmy, 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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