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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.1ml

14 km ESE of Hawthorne, Nevada

· 4.9 km deep · released about 43 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mineral County 5 kmMono County 73 kmLyon County 87 kmEsmeralda County 107 kmDouglas County 110 kmAlpine County 117 kmChurchill County 118 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 2.1 (ml)
Depth
4.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mineral County, 5 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2161 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 43 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 350,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 250,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 22× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 43 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 38.4882, -118.4619. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mineral County, NV 5 km (3 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Mono County, CA 73 km (45 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Lyon County, NV 87 km (54 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Esmeralda County, NV 107 km (67 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Douglas County, NV 110 km (68 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Alpine County, CA 117 km (73 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

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

  1. 1.7 22 km E of Hawthorne, Nevada
  2. 2.8 25 km S of Mina, Nevada
  3. 2.4 25 km S of Mina, Nevada
  4. 2.9 25 km S of Mina, Nevada
  5. 2.1 36 km NNE of Benton, California
  6. 1.5 28 km ENE of Bridgeport, California
  7. 1.5 29 km SSW of Mina, Nevada
  8. 1.6 24 km S of Mina, Nevada
  9. 2.5 33 km NE of Benton, California
  10. 2.1 33 km NE of Benton, California
  11. 1.7 35 km NNE of Benton, California
  12. 1.7 31 km SSW 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 180,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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