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M 1.7ml
Earthquake near Beatty, NV
No earthquake was likely felt in Beatty in the 24 hours to 3:14 am PST (11:14 UTC). The last one was M 2.6, 17 km (11 mi) SSW, at 2:01 pm PDT on 28 August 2026, estimated intensity II (weak) in town. Every earthquake near Beatty
This page: a magnitude 1.7 earthquake was recorded 46 km (28 mi) east-southeast of Beatty, NV, at 3:55 pm PST on 22 February 2021 (23:55 UTC), 8.7 km deep.
USGS: 45 km ESE of Beatty, Nevada
- When
- 3:55 pm PST on 22 February 2021 ()
- Where
- 46 km (28 mi) east-southeast of Beatty, NV · earthquakes near Beatty
- Magnitude
- M 1.7 (ml)
- Depth
- 8.7 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Inyo County, 99 km W
- Nearest mapped fault
- Rock Valley fault, 6 km from its surface trace — near is not the same as on
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
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This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.
At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 9 km (6 mi) from the epicentre. In Beatty, 46 km away, the estimate is intensity I (not felt). Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.
How big was it?
This earthquake released about 11 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 89× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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.
For this area
The largest earthquake within 50 km since 2016 was M 4.1 on 2017-07-17 — about 4,000 times the energy of this one.
Before 2016, the USGS record lists 36 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:
- 5.9 66 km ENE of Beatty, Nevada · 49 km NNE of this epicentre
- 5.9 64 km NNW of Indian Springs, Nevada · 46 km NNE of this epicentre
- 5.9 63 km NNW of Indian Springs, Nevada · 46 km NNE of this epicentre
- 5.9 66 km ENE of Beatty, Nevada · 48 km NNE of this epicentre
- 5.8 65 km SSW of Rachel, Nevada · 50 km NNE of this epicentre
Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.
Where
Epicentre 36.7065, -116.3105. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction from the epicentre | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inyo County, CA | 99 km (61 mi) | W | earthquakes near Inyo County |
| Clark County, NV | 128 km (80 mi) | ESE | earthquakes near Clark County |
| Esmeralda County, NV | 167 km (104 mi) | NW | earthquakes near Esmeralda County |
Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.
Aftershocks so far
51 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
- 1.5 47 km ESE of Beatty, Nevada
- 2.2 50 km ENE of Beatty, Nevada
- 2.3 33 km WNW of Indian Springs, Nevada
- 1.5 29 km NW of Indian Springs, Nevada
- 2.2 51 km ESE of Beatty, Nevada
- 2.4 30 km NNW of Pahrump, Nevada
- 1.7 25 km NNE of Pahrump, Nevada
- 1.8 20km E of Furnace Creek, CA
- 1.5 26 km NNE of Pahrump, Nevada
- 1.6 39 km WNW of Indian Springs, Nevada
- 1.7 38km ESE of Furnace Creek, CA
- 1.5 38 km NW of Indian Springs, Nevada
- 1.8 29 km NE of Furnace Creek, California
- 2.3 Nevada
- 1.9 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.
On USGS
- The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
- Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
- ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one
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