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M 3.5ml

51 km N of Hiko, Nevada

· 7.5 km deep · released about 2.7 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.5 (ml)
Depth
7.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lincoln County, 59 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1604 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 2.7 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 63,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.5 about 2.7 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 5.6× 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 38.0585, -115.2581. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lincoln County, NV 59 km (36 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Nye County, NV 106 km (66 mi) E of here earthquakes near Nye County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 65 km SSW of Lund, Nevada
  2. 2.5 35 km NNW of Hiko, Nevada
  3. 1.8 15 km ENE of Hiko, Nevada
  4. 1.7 22 km NNE of Hiko, Nevada
  5. 1.8 35 km NNW of Hiko, Nevada
  6. 1.9 59 km SSW of Lund, Nevada
  7. 1.7 47 km SSW of Lund, Nevada
  8. 1.9 25 km N of Hiko, Nevada
  9. 2.5 57 km SSW of Lund, Nevada
  10. 1.8 71 km N of Hiko, Nevada
  11. 1.6 22 km NNE of Hiko, Nevada
  12. 2.3 50 km N of Hiko, Nevada
  13. 1.9 35 km NNE of Hiko, Nevada
  14. 1.6 14 km NNE of Hiko, Nevada
  15. 1.9 45 km S of Lund, 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.

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