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M 2.1ml

2 km NE of Dyer, Nevada

· 14 km deep · released about 43 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Esmeralda County 38 kmMono County 78 kmMineral County 98 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.1 (ml)
Depth
14 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Esmeralda County, 38 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 888 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 43 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 350,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 250,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 22× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 43 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 37.6816, -118.0431. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Esmeralda County, NV 38 km (23 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Mono County, CA 78 km (48 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Mineral County, NV 98 km (61 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Mineral County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.4 7 km NNW of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA
  2. 2.1 7 km NNW of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA
  3. 1.6 9 km ENE of Round Valley, CA
  4. 1.5 11 km N of Dyer, Nevada
  5. 1.5 32 km SE of Dyer, Nevada
  6. 1.6 11 km ESE of Toms Place, CA
  7. 2.2 1 km ESE of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA
  8. 3.0 7 km E of Bishop, CA
  9. 1.7 18 km E of Toms Place, CA
  10. 2.1 20 km NNE of Deep Springs, CA
  11. 2.2 20 km NNE of Deep Springs, CA
  12. 1.5 4 km NNW of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA
  13. 1.6 20 km N of Deep Springs, CA
  14. 1.8 18 km NNE of Deep Springs, CA
  15. 1.6 9 km ENE of Bishop, CA

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 4.8 on 2022-01-06 — it released about 9,400 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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