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M 1.5ml

27 km SE of Caliente, Nevada

· 5.0 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lincoln County 53 kmWashington County 76 kmIron County 106 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lincoln County, 53 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1173 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 37.4117, -114.3311. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lincoln County, NV 53 km (33 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Washington County, UT 76 km (47 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Washington County
Iron County, UT 106 km (66 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Iron County
Beaver County, UT 142 km (88 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Beaver County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 27 km SSW of Caliente, Nevada
  2. 1.9 20 km SSW of Caliente, Nevada
  3. 2.5 32 km SE of Caliente, Nevada
  4. 2.0 29 km SSE of Caliente, Nevada
  5. 1.6 46 km S of Caliente, Nevada
  6. 1.9 45 km S of Caliente, Nevada
  7. 2.1 39 km S of Caliente, Nevada
  8. 1.9 14 km S of Caliente, Nevada
  9. 2.2 39 km SE of Caliente, Nevada
  10. 1.7 45 km SE of Caliente, Nevada
  11. 1.6 31 km W of Veyo, Utah
  12. 1.6 31 km W of Veyo, Utah
  13. 1.7 29 km W of Veyo, Utah
  14. 2.6 50 km S of Caliente, Nevada
  15. 1.5 28 km W of Beryl Junction, Utah

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 4.2 on 2016-01-15 — it released about 13,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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