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Earthquake · automatic estimate, may change

M 1.8ml

19 km NE of Hawthorne, Nevada

· 5.1 km deep · released about 15 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mineral County 15 kmLyon County 76 kmMono County 89 kmChurchill County 101 kmDouglas County 103 kmAlpine County 115 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.8 (ml)
Depth
5.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mineral County, 15 km SSE
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1897 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 38.6469, -118.4701. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mineral County, NV 15 km (9 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Lyon County, NV 76 km (47 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Mono County, CA 89 km (55 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Churchill County, NV 101 km (63 mi) S of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Douglas County, NV 103 km (64 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Alpine County, CA 115 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

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

  1. 1.9 16 km WNW of Gabbs, Nevada
  2. 1.5 15 km S of Schurz, Nevada
  3. 1.5 4 km NNW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  4. 1.7 9 km NNW of Mina, Nevada
  5. 1.5 28 km SSW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  6. 2.2 1 km E of Schurz, Nevada
  7. 1.6 5 km NNW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  8. 1.5 18 km NE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  9. 1.6 5 km NNW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  10. 1.7 38 km E of Schurz, Nevada
  11. 1.5 5 km NNW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  12. 1.6 27 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  13. 1.7 5 km NNW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  14. 1.8 8 km N of Walker Lake, Nevada
  15. 1.6 29 km SSW of Walker Lake, 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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