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M 2.3ml

55 km WNW of Beatty, Nevada

· 5.6 km deep · released about 85 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Inyo County 69 kmEsmeralda County 73 kmNye County 114 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (ml)
Depth
5.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Inyo County, 69 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2232 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 85 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 130,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 11× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 85 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 37.1760, -117.2923. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Inyo County, CA 69 km (43 mi) N of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Esmeralda County, NV 73 km (46 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Nye County, NV 114 km (71 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Nye County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 61 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  2. 1.6 48 km NW of Beatty, Nevada
  3. 1.6 31 km SSE of Silver Peak, Nevada
  4. 1.6 54 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  5. 1.6 27 km SSE of Silver Peak, Nevada
  6. 1.6 37 km SSE of Goldfield, Nevada
  7. 2.0 53 km WNW of Beatty, Nevada
  8. 1.8 51 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  9. 2.1 51 km ENE of Independence, California
  10. 1.5 61 km NNE of Keeler, California
  11. 2.6 33km NW of Stovepipe Wells, CA
  12. 1.5 40 km SSE of Goldfield, Nevada
  13. 1.6 43 km ESE of Big Pine, California
  14. 1.6 59 km NNE of Keeler, California
  15. 3.2 65km NNW of Stovepipe Wells, CA

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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