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Earthquake · automatic estimate, may change

M 1.8ml

28 km SW of Hawthorne, Nevada

· 7.6 km deep · released about 15 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mineral County 44 kmMono County 51 kmLyon County 77 kmAlpine County 84 kmDouglas County 86 kmTuolumne County 102 kmCarson City 114 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 1.8 (ml)
Depth
7.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mineral County, 44 km ENE
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2095 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 38.3765, -118.8907. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mineral County, NV 44 km (27 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Mono County, CA 51 km (32 mi) N of here earthquakes near Mono County
Lyon County, NV 77 km (48 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Alpine County, CA 84 km (52 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Douglas County, NV 86 km (53 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Tuolumne County, CA 102 km (63 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Tuolumne County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 17 km ENE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  2. 1.5 19km SE of Bodie, CA
  3. 1.5 7 km N of Walker Lake, Nevada
  4. 1.5 26km E of Lee Vining, CA
  5. 3.2 17km SE of Bodie, CA
  6. 1.5 31km SE of Bodie, CA
  7. 1.6 36 km N of Benton, California
  8. 1.7 27km SE of Bodie, CA
  9. 3.1 32 km SSE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  10. 3.0 6km NNW of Bridgeport, CA
  11. 1.6 16 km NNW of Bridgeport, California
  12. 3.1 16 km NE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  13. 1.6 11 km WNW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  14. 2.1 27km SE of Bodie, CA
  15. 2.2 28 km SSW of Hawthorne, 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 500,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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