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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.3ml

23 km NNE of Hawthorne, Nevada

· 8.6 km deep · released about 1.3 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mineral County 21 kmLyon County 72 kmMono County 94 kmChurchill County 95 kmDouglas County 101 kmAlpine County 115 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 3.3 (ml)
Depth
8.6 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Mineral County, 21 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1546 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1.3 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 130,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 5,600× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 4,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.3 about 1.3 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2.8× 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 38.7001, -118.4791. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mineral County, NV 21 km (13 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Lyon County, NV 72 km (45 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Mono County, CA 94 km (58 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Churchill County, NV 95 km (59 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Douglas County, NV 101 km (62 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Alpine County, CA 115 km (71 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

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

  1. 1.6 California-Nevada border region
  2. 1.7 California-Nevada border region
  3. 1.5 California-Nevada border region
  4. 1.9 20 km W of Mina, Nevada
  5. 1.6 8 km NNW of Mina, Nevada
  6. 1.8 California-Nevada border region
  7. 1.7 15 km SSW of Schurz, Nevada
  8. 2.0 9 km NNW of Mina, Nevada
  9. 1.6 22 km SSW of Gabbs, Nevada
  10. 1.6 25 km S of Hawthorne, Nevada
  11. 1.5 5 km NNE of Schurz, Nevada
  12. 1.5 32 km ENE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  13. 1.5 17 km NW of Mina, Nevada
  14. 1.5 California-Nevada border region
  15. 2.6 13 km NW 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 4.5 on 2016-07-07 — it released about 63 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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