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M 5.1ml

25 km S of Mina, Nevada

· 5.0 km deep · released about 670 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mineral County 49 kmEsmeralda County 58 kmMono County 75 km
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When
Magnitude
M 5.1 (ml)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
130 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Measured shaking
intensity V (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
green
Nearest
Mineral County, 49 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 279 days ago

This was a moderate earthquake. Shaking at this size can damage poorly built structures close to the epicentre. 130 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 670 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 6.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 250× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 11× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 7.9× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 5.1 about 670 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1,400× more

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 38.1637, -118.0837. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mineral County, NV 49 km (30 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Esmeralda County, NV 58 km (36 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Mono County, CA 75 km (46 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Lyon County, NV 136 km (84 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Lyon County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.5 24 km S of Mina, Nevada
  2. 3.3 25 km S of Mina, Nevada
  3. 1.8 25 km S of Mina, Nevada
  4. 1.9 27 km S of Mina, Nevada
  5. 1.9 31 km SSE of Mina, Nevada
  6. 2.6 25 km S of Mina, Nevada
  7. 1.9 25 km S of Mina, Nevada
  8. 2.4 25 km S of Mina, Nevada
  9. 1.7 23 km S of Mina, Nevada
  10. 1.8 29 km SSE of Mina, Nevada
  11. 2.7 25 km S of Mina, Nevada
  12. 2.5 24 km S of Mina, Nevada
  13. 4.3 California-Nevada border region
  14. 4.4 24 km S of Mina, Nevada
  15. 2.4 California-Nevada border region

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 6.5 on 2020-05-15 — it released about 130 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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