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M 1.7ml

29 km SW of Goldfield, Nevada

· 17 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Esmeralda County 35 kmNye County 101 kmInyo County 105 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 1.7 (ml)
Depth
17 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Esmeralda County, 35 km NNW
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2256 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 11 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 89× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 37.5035, -117.4477. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Esmeralda County, NV 35 km (22 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Nye County, NV 101 km (63 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Nye County
Inyo County, CA 105 km (65 mi) N of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Mineral County, NV 141 km (88 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

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

  1. 2.2 6km ENE of Deep Springs, CA
  2. 1.7 20 km NW of Goldfield, Nevada
  3. 1.5 40 km SSE of Goldfield, Nevada
  4. 3.2 65km NNW of Stovepipe Wells, CA
  5. 2.3 56km WNW of Beatty, NV
  6. 1.5 56 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada
  7. 1.5 59 km S of Goldfield, Nevada
  8. 1.9 59 km WNW of Beatty, Nevada
  9. 1.8 26 km SSW of Silver Peak, Nevada
  10. 1.6 26 km SSW of Silver Peak, Nevada
  11. 1.5 27 km SSW of Silver Peak, Nevada
  12. 1.5 27 km SSW of Silver Peak, Nevada
  13. 1.7 57km NNW of Stovepipe Wells, CA
  14. 1.6 26 km SSW of Silver Peak, Nevada
  15. 1.5 23 km SSW 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.0 on 2020-03-13 — it released about 2,800 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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