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M 1.8ml

Earthquake near Nellis Air Force Base, NV

USGS: 23 km NE of Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada

40 km (25 mi) ENE of Las Vegas, NV · 23 km (14 mi) ENE of North Las Vegas, NV

1:18 pm PDT, Apr 1, 2022 · · 0.0 km deep · released about 15 lb of TNT

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When
1:18 pm PDT on 1 April 2022 ()
Where
23 km (14 mi) NE of Nellis Air Force Base, NV · earthquakes near Nellis Air Force Base
Magnitude
M 1.8 (ml)
Depth
0.0 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Clark County, 23 km SW
Nearest mapped fault
California Wash fault, 14 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 1639 days ago

A magnitude 1.8 earthquake was recorded 23 km (14 mi) NE of Nellis Air Force Base, NV, at 1:18 pm PDT on 1 April 2022 (20:18 UTC). 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS. This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

Earthquakes near other towns within 30 km: Sunrise Manor.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 15 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 710,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 63× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 15 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

No earthquake of M4 or more has been recorded within 50 km since our catalogue begins in 2016.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists one earthquake of M5 or more within 50 km:

  1. 5.0 1 km SE of Boulder City, Nevada · 47 km S 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 36.3854, -114.8646. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection from the epicentre
Clark County, NV 23 km (14 mi) SW earthquakes near Clark County
Mohave County, AZ 125 km (78 mi) SE earthquakes near Mohave County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 9 km WSW of Henderson, Nevada
  2. 1.6 8 km SSW of Henderson, Nevada
  3. 1.7 17 km N of Summerlin South, Nevada
  4. 1.8 18 km E of Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada
  5. 1.7 26 km N of Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada
  6. 1.8 8 km SSW of Whitney, Nevada
  7. 1.7 24 km E of Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada
  8. 3.3 24 km ENE of Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada
  9. 2.2 20 km NE of Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada
  10. 1.6 22 km ENE of Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada
  11. 2.1 11 km NE of Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada
  12. 1.5 15 km N of Summerlin South, Nevada
  13. 1.7 39 km E of Indian Springs, Nevada
  14. 1.6 24 km NW of North Las Vegas, Nevada
  15. 1.6 3 km WSW of Boulder City, 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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