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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5ml

18 km NE of Walker Lake, Nevada

· 12 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mineral County 30 kmLyon County 61 kmDouglas County 90 kmChurchill County 92 kmMono County 96 kmAlpine County 106 kmCarson City 110 kmStorey County 112 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 1.5 (ml)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mineral County, 30 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1749 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 5.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 180× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.4 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 38.7497, -118.5839. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mineral County, NV 30 km (18 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Lyon County, NV 61 km (38 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Douglas County, NV 90 km (56 mi) E of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Churchill County, NV 92 km (57 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Mono County, CA 96 km (60 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Alpine County, CA 106 km (66 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

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

  1. 1.7 California-Nevada border region
  2. 1.9 20 km W of Mina, Nevada
  3. 1.6 8 km NNW of Mina, Nevada
  4. 1.7 28 km SW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  5. 1.8 California-Nevada border region
  6. 1.7 15 km SSW of Schurz, Nevada
  7. 2.0 9 km NNW of Mina, Nevada
  8. 1.5 5 km NNE of Schurz, Nevada
  9. 1.5 32 km ENE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  10. 1.5 17 km NW of Mina, Nevada
  11. 1.5 California-Nevada border region
  12. 2.6 13 km NW of Mina, Nevada
  13. 2.2 14 km SW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  14. 1.8 8 km SE of Schurz, Nevada
  15. 1.7 12 km W 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 1,400,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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