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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5ml

16 km ENE of Hawthorne, Nevada

· 8.8 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mineral County 11 kmLyon County 78 kmMono County 85 kmDouglas County 105 kmChurchill County 105 kmAlpine County 116 kmEsmeralda County 117 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
8.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mineral County, 11 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2085 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 38.6074, -118.4653. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mineral County, NV 11 km (7 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Lyon County, NV 78 km (49 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Mono County, CA 85 km (53 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Douglas County, NV 105 km (65 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Churchill County, NV 105 km (65 mi) S of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Alpine County, CA 116 km (72 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

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

  1. 1.6 11 km WNW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  2. 2.2 28 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  3. 1.8 28 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  4. 1.8 29 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  5. 1.5 28 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  6. 2.2 29 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  7. 1.5 16 km N of Walker Lake, Nevada
  8. 2.1 23 km WNW of Gabbs, Nevada
  9. 2.0 23 km WNW of Gabbs, Nevada
  10. 2.6 California-Nevada border region
  11. 1.9 8 km WSW of Mina, Nevada
  12. 1.5 8 km NNW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  13. 1.5 26 km NNW of Mina, Nevada
  14. 1.5 30 km ENE of Bridgeport, California
  15. 1.6 8 km NNE 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 1,400,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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