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explosion · automatic estimate, may change

M 1.7ml

58 km S of Kingston, Nevada

· 16 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Nye County 100 kmEsmeralda County 110 kmMineral County 112 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 1.7 (ml)
Depth
16 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Nye County, 100 km SE
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 956 days ago

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

USGS catalogues this as explosion, not an earthquake.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 11 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 89× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 38.6852, -117.1404. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Nye County, NV 100 km (62 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Nye County
Esmeralda County, NV 110 km (68 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Mineral County, NV 112 km (70 mi) E of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Churchill County, NV 136 km (84 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Churchill County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 50 km NE of Tonopah, Nevada
  2. 1.7 51 km NE of Tonopah, Nevada
  3. 2.2 58 km N of Tonopah, Nevada
  4. 1.5 57 km S of Kingston, Nevada
  5. 2.0 56 km S of Kingston, Nevada
  6. 2.0 27 km NNE of Tonopah, Nevada
  7. 2.1 56 km S of Kingston, Nevada
  8. 1.8 62 km N of Tonopah, Nevada
  9. 1.9 55 km S of Kingston, Nevada
  10. 1.7 57 km S of Kingston, Nevada
  11. 2.0 58 km S of Kingston, Nevada
  12. 1.8 58 km S of Kingston, Nevada
  13. 1.9 53 km N of Tonopah, Nevada
  14. 1.6 53 km S of Kingston, Nevada
  15. 1.6 47 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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