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M 4.3ml

16 km ENE of Walker Lake, Nevada

· 5.5 km deep · released about 49 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mineral County 23 kmLyon County 66 kmMono County 90 kmDouglas County 94 kmChurchill County 98 kmAlpine County 107 kmCarson City 115 kmStorey County 118 km
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When
Magnitude
M 4.3 (ml)
Depth
5.5 km below the surface
Felt
30 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
green
Nearest
Mineral County, 23 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 49 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon. 30 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 49 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 3,500× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 150× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 110× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.3 about 49 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 100× 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 38.6864, -118.5666. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mineral County, NV 23 km (14 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Lyon County, NV 66 km (41 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Mono County, CA 90 km (56 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Douglas County, NV 94 km (58 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Churchill County, NV 98 km (61 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Alpine County, CA 107 km (67 mi) E of here earthquakes near Alpine County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 27 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  2. 2.0 17 km ENE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  3. 1.6 27 km SW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  4. 2.3 13 km NE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  5. 1.5 16 km E of Walker Lake, Nevada
  6. 2.4 16 km E of Walker Lake, Nevada
  7. 2.3 17 km E of Walker Lake, Nevada
  8. 2.2 14 km NE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  9. 2.0 14 km NE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  10. 1.9 14 km NE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  11. 1.8 9 km E of Hawthorne, Nevada
  12. 1.7 17 km E of Walker Lake, Nevada
  13. 1.8 14 km NE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  14. 2.4 13 km NE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  15. 1.9 17 km ENE of Walker Lake, 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 78 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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