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M 3.2ml

27 km SW of Goldfield, Nevada

· 7.3 km deep · released about 1,900 lb of TNT

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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 3.2 (ml)
Depth
7.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Measured shaking
intensity III (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Esmeralda County, 33 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2207 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,900 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 7,900× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 5,600× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1,900 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2× 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 37.5243, -117.4412. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Esmeralda County, NV 33 km (20 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Nye County, NV 99 km (62 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Nye County
Inyo County, CA 107 km (67 mi) N of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Mineral County, NV 140 km (87 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Mineral County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 26 km SSW of Silver Peak, Nevada
  2. 2.2 26 km SSW of Silver Peak, Nevada
  3. 1.7 59 km WNW of Beatty, Nevada
  4. 1.6 52 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  5. 2.1 62km ENE of Big Pine, CA
  6. 1.8 12 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  7. 1.5 21 km S of Goldfield, Nevada
  8. 1.6 13.4 km SE of Silver Peak, NV
  9. 1.8 57 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada
  10. 1.6 20 km ESE of Dyer, Nevada
  11. 1.7 62 km WNW of Beatty, Nevada
  12. 1.7 58 km WNW of Beatty, Nevada
  13. 2.4 48 km NNW of Beatty, Nevada
  14. 1.6 25 km SSW of Silver Peak, Nevada
  15. 1.5 57 km WNW of Beatty, 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 4.0 on 2020-03-13 — it released about 16 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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