32 km SE of Dyer, Nevada

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

At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 8 km (5 mi) from the epicentre. Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 5.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800,000× the energy of this one
2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000,000× the energy of this one
3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 180× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.4 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km since 2016 was M 4.8 on 2022-01-06 — about 75,000 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 5 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km:

1. 6.1 46km E of Big Pine, California · 32 km S of this epicentre May 17, 1993
2. 5.8 10 km NNE of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, California · 48 km W of this epicentre Jul 31, 1986
3. 5.6 24 km WSW of Dyer, Nevada · 50 km WNW of this epicentre Jul 21, 1986
4. 5.4 16 km NNW of Dyer, Nevada · 48 km NW of this epicentre Nov 2, 1997
5. 5.3 47km NNE of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA · 49 km NW of this epicentre Feb 2, 1961

Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.

Where

Epicentre 37.4477, -117.8225. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

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

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 1.8 15 km WNW of Deep Springs, CA 03:54 UTC
2. 3.4 19 km SSW of Silver Peak, Nevada 01:55 UTC
3. 1.7 20 km SSW of Silver Peak, Nevada 13:22 UTC
4. 1.7 20 km SSW of Silver Peak, Nevada 16:33 UTC
5. 1.6 19 km SSW of Silver Peak, Nevada 13:59 UTC
6. 2.3 19 km SSW of Silver Peak, Nevada 13:54 UTC
7. 2.2 58 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada 08:49 UTC
8. 1.7 14 km W of Deep Springs, CA 19:15 UTC
9. 2.5 2 km E of Bishop, CA 21:17 UTC
10. 1.8 4 km SE of Bishop, CA 21:16 UTC
11. 1.5 51 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada 20:08 UTC
12. 2.4 3 km E of Big Pine, CA 07:42 UTC
13. 1.5 47 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada 03:56 UTC
14. 2.0 35 km E of Big Pine, California 10:20 UTC
15. 2.4 27 km SSE of Silver Peak, Nevada 17:59 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 18:09 UTC. QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

On USGS

• The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
• Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
• ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

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