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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.9ml

33 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada

· 8.7 km deep · released about 21 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 39 kmMineral County 44 kmLyon County 91 kmAlpine County 96 kmDouglas County 100 kmTuolumne County 105 kmEsmeralda County 116 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.9 (ml)
Depth
8.7 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 39 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 813 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 21 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 710,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 500,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 45× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 21 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 38.2594, -118.8035. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 39 km (24 mi) N of here earthquakes near Mono County
Mineral County, NV 44 km (27 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Lyon County, NV 91 km (57 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Alpine County, CA 96 km (59 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Douglas County, NV 100 km (62 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Tuolumne County, CA 105 km (65 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Tuolumne County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 29 km SE of Bodie, CA
  2. 2.0 16 km NNE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  3. 1.6 28 km SE of Bodie, CA
  4. 2.1 39 km SSW of Qualeys Camp, NV
  5. 1.7 34 km SE of Bodie, CA
  6. 1.7 27 km SSW of Mina, Nevada
  7. 1.5 33 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  8. 2.1 32 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  9. 1.7 38 km NNE of Toms Place, CA
  10. 3.3 34 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  11. 3.2 33 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  12. 2.5 32 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  13. 1.8 33 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  14. 1.7 34 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  15. 2.4 32 km SSW 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 5.6 on 2016-12-28 — it released about 350,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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