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M 1.6ml

49 km WSW of Austin, Nevada

· 7.2 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Churchill County 57 kmLander County 75 kmMineral County 119 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
7.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Churchill County, 57 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1885 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 7.6 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.6 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 39.3924, -117.6315. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Churchill County, NV 57 km (35 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Lander County, NV 75 km (47 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Lander County
Mineral County, NV 119 km (74 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Eureka County, NV 133 km (83 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Eureka County
Pershing County, NV 134 km (83 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Pershing County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 42 km NNW of Gabbs, Nevada
  2. 3.6 42 km NNW of Gabbs, Nevada
  3. 1.6 30 km ENE of Gabbs, Nevada
  4. 2.4 31 km ENE of Gabbs, Nevada
  5. 2.1 58 km N of Gabbs, Nevada
  6. 2.0 30 km ENE of Gabbs, Nevada
  7. 1.9 30 km ENE of Gabbs, Nevada
  8. 2.1 48 km W of Austin, Nevada
  9. 1.8 33 km ENE of Gabbs, Nevada
  10. 1.8 51 km NNW of Gabbs, Nevada
  11. 1.7 61 km W of Austin, Nevada
  12. 2.4 48 km NW of Austin, Nevada
  13. 2.3 39 km WSW of Austin, Nevada
  14. 2.2 46 km NNW of Gabbs, Nevada
  15. 1.5 56 km ENE of Fallon Station, 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 4.1 on 2019-04-28 — 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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