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M 1.6ml

56 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada

· 11 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Esmeralda County, 59 km N
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2224 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 7.6 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.6 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 37.2520, -117.5690. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Esmeralda County, NV 59 km (37 mi) S of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Inyo County, CA 78 km (49 mi) N of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Nye County, NV 126 km (78 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Nye County
Mono County, CA 137 km (85 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Tulare County, CA 157 km (97 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Tulare County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 37 km SSE of Goldfield, Nevada
  2. 2.0 53 km WNW of Beatty, Nevada
  3. 1.8 51 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  4. 2.1 51 km ENE of Independence, California
  5. 2.4 6km ENE of Deep Springs, CA
  6. 1.5 61 km NNE of Keeler, California
  7. 2.2 6km ENE of Deep Springs, CA
  8. 1.6 43 km ESE of Big Pine, California
  9. 1.6 59 km NNE of Keeler, California
  10. 1.5 34 km ENE of Independence, California
  11. 3.2 65km NNW of Stovepipe Wells, CA
  12. 1.6 32 km ESE of Big Pine, California
  13. 2.3 56km WNW of Beatty, NV
  14. 1.8 19km E of Big Pine, CA
  15. 1.5 56 km SSW of Goldfield, 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 4,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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