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M 1.8ml

39 km WSW of Rachel, Nevada

· 16 km deep · released about 15 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.8 (ml)
Depth
16 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Nye County, 53 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1602 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 15 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 710,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 63× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 15 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 37.5453, -116.1739. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Nye County, NV 53 km (33 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Nye County
Lincoln County, NV 116 km (72 mi) W of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Inyo County, CA 154 km (96 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Inyo 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 12 km SSW of Rachel, Nevada
  2. 2.0 53 km ESE of Goldfield, Nevada
  3. 2.3 55 km ENE of Beatty, Nevada
  4. 1.5 18 km SSE of Rachel, Nevada
  5. 1.5 28 km SW of Rachel, Nevada
  6. 1.9 28 km SW of Rachel, Nevada
  7. 1.7 60 km ENE of Beatty, Nevada
  8. 2.2 50 km ENE of Beatty, Nevada
  9. 2.3 39 km WNW of Rachel, Nevada
  10. 1.6 25 km WNW of Rachel, Nevada
  11. 2.0 22 km WNW of Rachel, Nevada
  12. 1.7 26 km WNW of Rachel, Nevada
  13. 1.6 21 km WNW of Rachel, Nevada
  14. 1.6 22 km WNW of Rachel, Nevada
  15. 1.7 23 km WNW of Rachel, 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 4.1 on 2019-06-11 — 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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