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M 2.3ml

23 km N of Dyer, Nevada

Yes. A magnitude 2.3 earthquake was recorded 23 km N of Dyer, Nevada, at 7:16 am PST on 6 February 2022 (15:16 UTC), 9.4 km deep.

· 9.4 km deep · released about 85 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Esmeralda County 40 kmMono County 71 kmMineral County 77 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 2.3 (ml)
Depth
9.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Esmeralda County, 40 km ESE
Nearest mapped fault
Fish Lake Valley fault, 4 km from its surface trace — near is not the same as on
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1739 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 17 km (11 mi) from the epicentre. Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 85 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 130,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 11× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 85 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km since 2016 was M 6.5 on 2020-05-15 — about 2,000,000 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 17 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:

  1. 6.1 Near Tonopah Junction, Nevada · 14 km NNE of this epicentre
  2. 5.9 18 km NNE of Mesa, California · 48 km SW of this epicentre
  3. 5.6 37 km N of Dyer, Nevada · 14 km N of this epicentre
  4. 5.6 24 km WSW of Dyer, Nevada · 38 km SW of this epicentre
  5. 5.5 Near Tonopah Junction, Nevada · 14 km NNE of this epicentre

Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.

Where

Epicentre 37.8832, -118.0675. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection from the epicentre
Esmeralda County, NV 40 km (25 mi) ESE earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Mono County, CA 71 km (44 mi) W earthquakes near Mono County
Mineral County, NV 77 km (48 mi) NNW earthquakes near Mineral County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 36 km SE of Mina, Nevada
  2. 1.8 23 km N of Dyer, Nevada
  3. 2.1 19km ENE of Toms Place, CA
  4. 1.6 31 km SSE of Mina, Nevada
  5. 1.9 26 km SW of Mina, Nevada
  6. 1.8 29 km SSE of Mina, Nevada
  7. 1.7 38 km SE of Mina, Nevada
  8. 1.7 39 km SE of Mina, Nevada
  9. 3.5 28 km SSE of Mina, Nevada
  10. 1.7 29 km SSE of Mina, Nevada
  11. 2.1 30 km SE of Mina, Nevada
  12. 1.5 29 km SSE of Mina, Nevada
  13. 1.6 31 km NE of Benton, California
  14. 1.7 36 km SE of Mina, Nevada
  15. 3.5 36 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.

On USGS

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