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M 1.5ml

57 km NW of Rachel, Nevada

· 0.3 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
0.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Nye County, 17 km W
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2193 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 5.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 180× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.4 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 37.9590, -116.2608. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Nye County, NV 17 km (11 mi) E of here earthquakes near Nye County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 72 km NNW of Rachel, Nevada
  2. 2.8 76 km NNW of Rachel, Nevada
  3. 2.1 42 km ENE of Tonopah, Nevada
  4. 1.5 65 km NNW of Rachel, Nevada
  5. 2.5 62 km NNW of Rachel, Nevada
  6. 1.6 62 km E of Tonopah, Nevada
  7. 1.6 32 km NW of Rachel, Nevada
  8. 1.9 31 km NW of Rachel, Nevada
  9. 1.7 32 km NW of Rachel, Nevada
  10. 1.6 30 km NW of Rachel, Nevada
  11. 2.0 93 km NNW of Rachel, Nevada
  12. 1.6 27 km WNW of Rachel, Nevada
  13. 1.5 63 km NW of Rachel, Nevada
  14. 2.0 46 km E of Tonopah, Nevada
  15. 1.8 91 km NNW 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.

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