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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 4.3mw

25 km SW of Mina, Nevada

· 12 km deep · released about 43 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mineral County 29 kmMono County 59 kmEsmeralda County 83 kmLyon County 112 km
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When
Magnitude
M 4.3 (mw)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
43 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Measured shaking
intensity V (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
green
Nearest
Mineral County, 29 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1632 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon. 43 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 43 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 4,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 180× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.3 about 43 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 89× more

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 38.2571, -118.3528. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mineral County, NV 29 km (18 mi) S of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Mono County, CA 59 km (37 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Esmeralda County, NV 83 km (51 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Lyon County, NV 112 km (70 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Douglas County, NV 131 km (81 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Douglas County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 27km ESE of Bodie, CA
  2. 1.5 25 km S of Mina, Nevada
  3. 2.1 32 km SE of Mina, Nevada
  4. 2.2 28 km SSW of Mina, Nevada
  5. 1.8 27 km SW of Mina, Nevada
  6. 2.2 38km N of Toms Place, CA
  7. 1.8 29 km SSE of Mina, Nevada
  8. 1.8 31 km SE of Mina, Nevada
  9. 2.3 23 km N of Dyer, Nevada
  10. 1.5 28 km SSW of Mina, Nevada
  11. 1.6 32 km SE of Mina, Nevada
  12. 1.6 30 km SSE of Mina, Nevada
  13. 2.1 27 km NNW of Benton, California
  14. 2.2 29km ESE of Bodie, CA
  15. 2.3 31 km SE of Mina, 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 6.5 on 2020-05-15 — it released about 2,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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