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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.9ml

33 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada

· 7.3 km deep · released about 680 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 38 kmMineral County 42 kmLyon County 96 kmAlpine County 102 kmDouglas County 106 kmEsmeralda County 109 kmTuolumne County 110 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 2.9 (ml)
Depth
7.3 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Mono County, 38 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1541 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 680 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 22,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 16,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.9 about 680 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.

Where

Epicentre 38.2391, -118.7350. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 38 km (24 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Mineral County, NV 42 km (26 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Lyon County, NV 96 km (60 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Alpine County, CA 102 km (63 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Douglas County, NV 106 km (66 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Esmeralda County, NV 109 km (68 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 California-Nevada border region
  2. 1.8 29 km ENE of Bridgeport, California
  3. 1.7 12 km W of Walker Lake, Nevada
  4. 2.3 40km SSW of Qualeys Camp, NV
  5. 1.5 21 km ESE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  6. 2.5 California-Nevada border region
  7. 2.6 21km SE of Bodie, CA
  8. 2.4 21km SE of Bodie, CA
  9. 2.0 25km SE of Bodie, CA
  10. 1.5 13km SSW of Bodie, CA
  11. 2.3 21 km WNW of Mina, Nevada
  12. 1.6 26 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  13. 1.5 26 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  14. 1.6 26 km SW of Mina, Nevada
  15. 1.7 33 km SSW 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 5.6 on 2016-12-28 — it released about 11,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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