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M 1.7ml

37 km NNW of Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada

· 7.6 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
7.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Clark County, 42 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1469 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 11 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 89× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 36.5666, -115.1911. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Clark County, NV 42 km (26 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Clark County
Lincoln County, NV 122 km (76 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Lincoln County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 21 km NNE of Indian Springs, Nevada
  2. 2.1 21 km NNE of Indian Springs, Nevada
  3. 1.8 25 km NNE of Indian Springs, Nevada
  4. 2.2 21 km NNE of Indian Springs, Nevada
  5. 1.9 22 km ESE of Indian Springs, Nevada
  6. 1.6 21 km ESE of Indian Springs, Nevada
  7. 1.6 26 km NNE of Indian Springs, Nevada
  8. 1.8 24 km NNE of Indian Springs, Nevada
  9. 1.7 24 km E of Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada
  10. 3.3 24 km ENE of Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada
  11. 1.5 46 km NW of Moapa Town, Nevada
  12. 2.7 9 km NW of Indian Springs, Nevada
  13. 1.9 15 km NNW of Indian Springs, Nevada
  14. 2.0 42 km NE of Indian Springs, Nevada
  15. 2.1 36 km NE of Indian Springs, 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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