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M 2.7ml

51 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada

· 5.1 km deep · released about 340 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Esmeralda County 56 kmInyo County 81 kmNye County 117 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 2.7 (ml)
Depth
5.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Esmeralda County, 56 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1716 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 340 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 45,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 32,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2.8× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.7 about 340 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 37.2915, -117.4805. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Esmeralda County, NV 56 km (35 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Inyo County, CA 81 km (51 mi) N of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Nye County, NV 117 km (73 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Nye County
Tulare County, CA 165 km (103 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Tulare County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 57km NW of Stovepipe Wells, CA
  2. 2.2 57km ENE of Independence, CA
  3. 2.3 57km ENE of Independence, CA
  4. 2.0 57km ENE of Independence, CA
  5. 2.6 57km NW of Stovepipe Wells, CA
  6. 2.1 53km ENE of Big Pine, CA
  7. 1.8 51 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  8. 1.5 51 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  9. 1.6 38 km SSE of Goldfield, Nevada
  10. 1.5 34 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  11. 1.6 59 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada
  12. 2.3 60 km WNW of Beatty, Nevada
  13. 2.0 59 km WNW of Beatty, Nevada
  14. 2.3 34km ESE of Big Pine, CA
  15. 2.4 33km ESE of Big Pine, CA

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 4.0 on 2020-03-13 — it released about 89 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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