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M 1.5ml

14 km NNE of Carlin, Nevada

· 18 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
18 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Elko County, 68 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1574 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 40.8356, -116.0527. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Elko County, NV 68 km (42 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Elko County
Eureka County, NV 97 km (60 mi) N of here earthquakes near Eureka County
Lander County, NV 134 km (83 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Lander County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 11 km WNW of Carlin, Nevada
  2. 1.6 52 km NNW of Carlin, Nevada
  3. 1.5 49 km NW of Carlin, Nevada
  4. 2.0 26 km W of Carlin, Nevada
  5. 2.0 47 km NNW of Carlin, Nevada
  6. 1.8 50 km NW of Carlin, Nevada
  7. 1.5 49 km NW of Carlin, Nevada
  8. 3.3 52 km NW of Carlin, Nevada
  9. 2.1 27 km SSE of Carlin, Nevada
  10. 1.9 18 km NW of Carlin, Nevada
  11. 2.6 28 km SSE of Carlin, Nevada
  12. 1.6 32 km W of Carlin, Nevada
  13. 1.8 41 km NW of Carlin, Nevada
  14. 3.1 55 km NNW of Carlin, Nevada
  15. 2.3 46 km NNW of Carlin, 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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