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M 2.7ml

9 km ENE of Panaca, Nevada

· 0.4 km deep · released about 340 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lincoln County 55 kmIron County 86 kmWashington County 94 kmBeaver County 109 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 2.7 (ml)
Depth
0.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lincoln County, 55 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 939 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 340 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 45,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 32,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2.8× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.7 about 340 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 37.8215, -114.2836. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lincoln County, NV 55 km (34 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Iron County, UT 86 km (54 mi) W of here earthquakes near Iron County
Washington County, UT 94 km (58 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Washington County
Beaver County, UT 109 km (68 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Beaver 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. 1.9 27 km SE of Caliente, Nevada
  2. 2.3 28 km SE of Caliente, Nevada
  3. 1.8 24 km SSE of Caliente, Nevada
  4. 1.8 29 km SE of Caliente, Nevada
  5. 1.7 24 km WSW of Pioche, Nevada
  6. 2.2 19 km SSW of Caliente, Nevada
  7. 1.8 13 km SSW of Caliente, Nevada
  8. 2.2 14 km NW of Beaverdam, Nevada
  9. 1.6 16 km SSW of Caliente, Nevada
  10. 1.6 12 km SSW of Caliente, Nevada
  11. 1.7 14 km WSW of Enterprise, Utah
  12. 1.9 7 km E of Panaca, Nevada
  13. 1.8 36 km WNW of Veyo, Utah
  14. 1.5 27 km SE of Caliente, Nevada
  15. 2.6 25 km NNE of Ursine, 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 4.2 on 2016-01-15 — it released about 200 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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