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M 1.8ml
Earthquake near Beatty, NV
No earthquake was likely felt in Beatty in the 24 hours to 10:35 pm PST (06:35 UTC). The last one was M 2.6, 17 km (11 mi) SSW, at 2:01 pm PDT on 28 August 2026, estimated intensity II (weak) in town. Every earthquake near Beatty
This page: a magnitude 1.8 earthquake was recorded 43 km (27 mi) west-northwest of Beatty, NV, at 10:20 am PDT on 28 April 2020 (17:20 UTC), less than 1 km deep.
USGS: 42 km WNW of Beatty, Nevada
- When
- 10:20 am PDT on 28 April 2020 ()
- Where
- 43 km (27 mi) west-northwest of Beatty, NV · earthquakes near Beatty
- Magnitude
- M 1.8 (ml)
- Depth
- 0.0 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Inyo County, 66 km SSW
- Nearest mapped fault
- Northern Death Valley fault, 22 km from its surface trace — near is not the same as on
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
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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 14 km (9 mi) from the epicentre. In Beatty, 43 km away, the estimate is intensity I (not felt). 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.
How big was it?
This earthquake released about 15 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,000,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 710,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 63× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 1.8 about 15 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
No earthquake of M4 or more has been recorded within 50 km since our catalogue begins in 2016.
Before 2016, the USGS record lists 3 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km:
- 5.7 37 km SSE of Goldfield, Nevada · 31 km NNE of this epicentre
- 5.5 Near Goldfield, Nevada · 44 km NNE of this epicentre
- 5.1 39 km SSE of Goldfield, Nevada · 30 km NNE of this epicentre
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 37.1215, -117.1621. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction from the epicentre | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inyo County, CA | 66 km (41 mi) | SSW | earthquakes near Inyo County |
| Esmeralda County, NV | 84 km (52 mi) | NNW | earthquakes near Esmeralda County |
| Nye County, NV | 113 km (70 mi) | NNE | earthquakes near Nye County |
Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.
Aftershocks so far
16 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
- 1.6 27 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada
- 1.7 29 km SW of Goldfield, Nevada
- 1.8 40km NW of Stovepipe Wells, CA
- 1.9 Central California
- 1.6 29 km SW of Goldfield, Nevada
- 1.7 53km NW of Stovepipe Wells, CA
- 1.8 53km NW of Stovepipe Wells, CA
- 1.9 57 km NE of Keeler, California
- 2.0 47 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada
- 1.9 49 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada
- 1.6 32 km SSE of Goldfield, Nevada
- 1.5 18 km S of Goldfield, Nevada
- 1.5 45 km SE of Goldfield, Nevada
- 2.0 36 km WNW of Beatty, Nevada
- 1.6 51 km S of Silver Peak, 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.
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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