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M 3.5ml

22 km S of Kingston, Nevada

· 3.1 km deep · released about 2.7 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.5 (ml)
Depth
3.1 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Lander County, 100 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1006 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 2.7 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 63,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.5 about 2.7 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 5.6× more

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 39.0036, -117.0526. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lander County, NV 100 km (62 mi) S of here earthquakes near Lander County
Churchill County, NV 120 km (75 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Nye County, NV 126 km (79 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Nye County
Eureka County, NV 127 km (79 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Eureka County
Mineral County, NV 130 km (81 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Mineral County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 57 km S of Kingston, Nevada
  2. 2.0 58 km S of Kingston, Nevada
  3. 1.8 58 km S of Kingston, Nevada
  4. 1.6 30 km ENE of Gabbs, Nevada
  5. 2.4 31 km ENE of Gabbs, Nevada
  6. 1.6 53 km S of Kingston, Nevada
  7. 1.6 47 km S of Kingston, Nevada
  8. 1.6 60 km S of Kingston, Nevada
  9. 1.8 52 km S of Kingston, Nevada
  10. 2.0 30 km ENE of Gabbs, Nevada
  11. 1.9 60 km N of Tonopah, Nevada
  12. 1.9 30 km ENE of Gabbs, Nevada
  13. 1.7 61 km N of Tonopah, Nevada
  14. 2.5 28 km SE of Kingston, Nevada
  15. 1.7 52 km S of Kingston, 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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