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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.1ml

16 km NE of Hawthorne, Nevada

· 4.2 km deep · released about 1,300 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mineral County 12 kmLyon County 78 kmMono County 85 kmDouglas County 104 kmChurchill County 104 kmAlpine County 116 kmEsmeralda 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 3.1 (ml)
Depth
4.2 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Mineral County, 12 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1983 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,300 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 250,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 11,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 7,900× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.1 about 1,300 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.4× 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 38.6126, -118.4684. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mineral County, NV 12 km (7 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Lyon County, NV 78 km (48 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 104 km (65 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Churchill County, NV 104 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. 1.5 12 km NNW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  2. 1.6 28 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  3. 1.6 14 km NE of Mina, Nevada
  4. 1.8 12 km NE of Mina, Nevada
  5. 1.6 17 km ENE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  6. 1.5 22 km E of Schurz, Nevada
  7. 1.5 7 km N of Walker Lake, Nevada
  8. 2.6 19 km WSW of Gabbs, Nevada
  9. 1.5 20 km NNE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  10. 1.7 22 km NW of Mina, Nevada
  11. 3.1 32 km SSE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  12. 3.0 23 km ENE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  13. 1.5 22 km NNW of Mina, Nevada
  14. 2.5 22 km NNW of Mina, Nevada
  15. 1.8 26 km SW 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 5,600 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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