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M 2.4ml

30 km NNW of Pahrump, Nevada

· 7.7 km deep · released about 120 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.4 (ml)
Depth
7.7 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Clark County, 102 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1210 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 120 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 130,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 89,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 7.9× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 120 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 36.4645, -116.1131. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Clark County, NV 102 km (64 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Clark County
Inyo County, CA 116 km (72 mi) E of here earthquakes near Inyo 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. 1.6 51 km ESE of Beatty, Nevada
  2. 2.1 25 km NNW of Indian Springs, Nevada
  3. 2.3 25 km NW of Indian Springs, Nevada
  4. 2.1 47 km ESE of Beatty, Nevada
  5. 2.0 47 km ESE of Beatty, Nevada
  6. 2.1 48 km ESE of Beatty, Nevada
  7. 1.9 25 km NNW of Indian Springs, Nevada
  8. 2.4 47 km SE of Beatty, Nevada
  9. 2.7 9 km NW of Indian Springs, Nevada
  10. 1.9 15 km NNW of Indian Springs, Nevada
  11. 1.7 10 km NW of Indian Springs, Nevada
  12. 1.6 17 km NNW of Shoshone, California
  13. 3.0 16 km NNW of Shoshone, CA
  14. 1.6 26 km ENE of Furnace Creek, California
  15. 2.0 52 km ESE 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.1 on 2017-07-17 — it released about 350 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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