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M 1.5ml

55 km SSW of Rachel, Nevada

· 3.3 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
3.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Nye County, 96 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1601 days ago

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

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 5.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 180× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.4 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 37.1830, -115.9938. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Nye County, NV 96 km (60 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Nye County
Lincoln County, NV 112 km (69 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Clark County, NV 139 km (86 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Clark County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 25 km NW of Indian Springs, Nevada
  2. 1.6 37 km W of Alamo, Nevada
  3. 2.9 37 km SSE of Rachel, Nevada
  4. 1.9 25 km NNW of Indian Springs, Nevada
  5. 1.9 38 km S of Rachel, Nevada
  6. 2.9 37 km S of Rachel, Nevada
  7. 1.6 43 km WSW of Alamo, Nevada
  8. 1.5 41 km NNE of Beatty, Nevada
  9. 1.8 26 km SE of Rachel, Nevada
  10. 1.6 33 km WSW of Alamo, Nevada
  11. 1.9 55 km N of Indian Springs, Nevada
  12. 1.5 14 km SW of Rachel, Nevada
  13. 1.5 11 km WSW of Rachel, Nevada
  14. 1.8 41 km NW of Indian Springs, Nevada
  15. 1.9 40 km NE of Beatty, 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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