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Earthquake · automatic estimate, may change

M 1.6ml

17 km NNE of Hawthorne, Nevada

· 12 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mineral County 21 kmLyon County 68 kmMono County 89 kmDouglas County 96 kmChurchill County 99 kmAlpine County 109 kmCarson City 117 kmStorey County 120 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 1.6 (ml)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mineral County, 21 km SSE
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2182 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 38.6743, -118.5458. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mineral County, NV 21 km (13 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Lyon County, NV 68 km (43 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Mono County, CA 89 km (55 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Douglas County, NV 96 km (59 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Churchill County, NV 99 km (62 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Alpine County, CA 109 km (68 mi) E of here earthquakes near Alpine County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 20 km NNW of Mina, Nevada
  2. 3.1 16 km NE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  3. 1.6 11 km WNW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  4. 2.2 28 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  5. 1.8 28 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  6. 1.8 29 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  7. 1.5 28 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  8. 2.2 29 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  9. 1.5 16 km N of Walker Lake, Nevada
  10. 2.1 23 km WNW of Gabbs, Nevada
  11. 2.0 23 km WNW of Gabbs, Nevada
  12. 2.6 California-Nevada border region
  13. 1.9 8 km WSW of Mina, Nevada
  14. 1.5 8 km NNW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  15. 1.5 26 km NNW of Mina, 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 5.6 on 2016-12-28 — it released about 1,000,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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