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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

17 km NNE of Hawthorne, Nevada

· 5.7 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mineral County 21 kmLyon County 68 kmMono County 89 kmDouglas County 95 kmChurchill County 99 kmAlpine County 108 kmCarson City 116 kmStorey County 119 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 1.7 (ml)
Depth
5.7 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mineral County, 21 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 765 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 11 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 89× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 38.6741, -118.5524. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mineral County, NV 21 km (13 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Lyon County, NV 68 km (42 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Mono County, CA 89 km (55 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Douglas County, NV 95 km (59 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Churchill County, NV 99 km (62 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Alpine County, CA 108 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

43 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. 1.8 26 km SW of Mina, Nevada
  9. 2.2 14 km NE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  10. 2.0 14 km NE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  11. 1.9 14 km NE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  12. 1.8 9 km E of Hawthorne, Nevada
  13. 1.7 17 km E of Walker Lake, Nevada
  14. 1.8 14 km NE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  15. 2.4 13 km NE 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 710,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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