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M 3.0ml

37 km WNW of Kingston, Nevada

· 9.2 km deep · released about 950 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.0 (ml)
Depth
9.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Churchill County, 71 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1338 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 950 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 16,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 11,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 950 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 39.3318, -117.4792. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Churchill County, NV 71 km (44 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Lander County, NV 73 km (46 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Lander County
Mineral County, NV 122 km (76 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Eureka County, NV 126 km (78 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Eureka County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 44 km WNW of Austin, Nevada
  2. 1.8 44 km W of Austin, Nevada
  3. 1.6 30 km ENE of Gabbs, Nevada
  4. 2.4 31 km ENE of Gabbs, Nevada
  5. 2.0 30 km ENE of Gabbs, Nevada
  6. 1.9 30 km ENE of Gabbs, Nevada
  7. 2.1 48 km W of Austin, Nevada
  8. 1.8 33 km ENE of Gabbs, Nevada
  9. 1.7 61 km W of Austin, Nevada
  10. 2.4 48 km NW of Austin, Nevada
  11. 2.3 39 km WSW of Austin, Nevada
  12. 2.3 8 km S of Austin, Nevada
  13. 2.4 27 km WNW of Kingston, Nevada
  14. 2.0 57 km WNW of Austin, Nevada
  15. 1.7 56 km WNW of Austin, 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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