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M 6.5ml

Monte Cristo Range, NV Earthquake

· 2.7 km deep · released about 85 kilotons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Esmeralda County 47 kmMineral County 63 kmMono County 94 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 6.5 (ml)
Depth
2.7 km below the surface
Felt
11961 reports · strongest reported intensity VII
Measured shaking
intensity VIII (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
green
Nearest
Esmeralda County, 47 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 233 days ago

This was a strong earthquake. Damage is likely near the epicentre and it is felt over a wide area. 11961 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 85 kilotons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 7.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Ridgecrest, California 2019 M 7.1 7.9× the energy of this one
  2. Loma Prieta, California 1989 M 6.9 4× the energy of this one
  3. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 2× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 6.5 about 85 kilotons of TNT
  5. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 this one released 11× more
  6. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 this one released 16× 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 38.1689, -117.8497. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Esmeralda County, NV 47 km (29 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Mineral County, NV 63 km (39 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Mono County, CA 94 km (58 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Lyon County, NV 151 km (94 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Lyon County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.3 26 km SSE of Mina, Nevada
  2. 2.5 34 km SE of Mina, Nevada
  3. 2.4 29 km SSE of Mina, Nevada
  4. 3.3 33 km SE of Mina, Nevada
  5. 2.8 30 km SSE of Mina, Nevada
  6. 3.0 29 km SE of Mina, Nevada
  7. 2.6 32 km SE of Mina, Nevada
  8. 2.6 26 km S of Mina, Nevada
  9. 2.5 32 km SSE of Mina, Nevada
  10. 2.4 30 km SE of Mina, Nevada
  11. 2.7 33 km SE of Mina, Nevada
  12. 4.3 37 km SE of Mina, Nevada
  13. 2.9 34 km SE of Mina, Nevada
  14. 3.0 39 km SE of Mina, Nevada
  15. 3.3 27 km SSE of Mina, 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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