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M 3.2ml

33 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada

· 7.4 km deep · released about 1,900 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 38 kmMineral County 44 kmLyon County 93 kmAlpine County 97 kmDouglas County 102 kmTuolumne County 106 kmEsmeralda County 114 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 3.2 (ml)
Depth
7.4 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Measured shaking
intensity III (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Mono County, 38 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 719 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,900 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 7,900× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 5,600× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1,900 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2× more

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 38.2486, -118.7886. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 38 km (23 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Mineral County, NV 44 km (27 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Lyon County, NV 93 km (58 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Alpine County, CA 97 km (60 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Douglas County, NV 102 km (63 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Tuolumne County, CA 106 km (66 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

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

  1. 1.9 41 km SSW of Qualeys Camp, NV
  2. 1.6 31 km SE of Bodie, CA
  3. 2.4 27 km SE of Bodie, CA
  4. 2.4 27 km SE of Bodie, CA
  5. 1.7 29 km SE of Bodie, CA
  6. 1.6 28 km SE of Bodie, CA
  7. 2.1 39 km SSW of Qualeys Camp, NV
  8. 1.7 34 km SE of Bodie, CA
  9. 1.7 27 km SSW of Mina, Nevada
  10. 1.5 33 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  11. 2.1 32 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  12. 1.7 38 km NNE of Toms Place, CA
  13. 3.3 34 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 4,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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