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M 1.5ml

24 km S of Gabbs, Nevada

Yes. A magnitude 1.5 earthquake was recorded 24 km S of Gabbs, Nevada, at 6:52 pm PST on 10 November 2023 (02:52 UTC), 6.5 km deep.

· 6.5 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mineral County 45 kmEsmeralda County 100 kmChurchill County 104 kmMono County 116 kmLyon County 118 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
6.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mineral County, 45 km WSW
Nearest mapped fault
Monte Cristo Valley fault, 10 km from its surface trace — near is not the same as on
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1095 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 8 km (5 mi) from the epicentre. Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.

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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km since 2016 was M 5.1 on 2020-05-22 — about 250,000 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 23 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:

  1. 6.8 The 1932 Cedar Mountain, Nevada Earthquake · 5 km SSW of this epicentre
  2. 5.5 10 km SW of Gabbs, Nevada · 18 km NNW of this epicentre
  3. 5.5 18 km S of Gabbs, Nevada · 7 km NNE of this epicentre
  4. 5.5 28 km E of Gabbs, Nevada · 40 km NE of this epicentre
  5. 5.5 32 km NE of Mina, Nevada · 11 km SE of this epicentre

Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.

Where

Epicentre 38.6442, -117.9269. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection from the epicentre
Mineral County, NV 45 km (28 mi) WSW earthquakes near Mineral County
Esmeralda County, NV 100 km (62 mi) SSE earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Churchill County, NV 104 km (64 mi) NNW earthquakes near Churchill County
Mono County, CA 116 km (72 mi) SW earthquakes near Mono County
Lyon County, NV 118 km (73 mi) WNW earthquakes near Lyon County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.5 11 km E of Mina, Nevada
  2. 1.7 10 km E of Mina, Nevada
  3. 3.2 11 km E of Mina, Nevada
  4. 1.5 28 km SE of Mina, Nevada
  5. 2.0 13 km SSW of Gabbs, Nevada
  6. 2.9 44 km ENE of Mina, Nevada
  7. 2.6 44 km ENE of Mina, Nevada
  8. 1.8 33 km ENE of Gabbs, Nevada
  9. 1.6 17 km W of Gabbs, Nevada
  10. 1.9 23 km E of Mina, Nevada
  11. 2.2 23 km E of Mina, Nevada
  12. 2.1 12 km S of Gabbs, Nevada
  13. 1.5 36 km SE of Gabbs, Nevada
  14. 2.4 23 km NW of Mina, Nevada
  15. 1.5 14 km E of Hawthorne, 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.

On USGS

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