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M 1.6ml
Earthquake near Pahrump, NV
No earthquake was likely felt in Pahrump in the 24 hours to 1:22 pm PST (21:22 UTC). The last one was M 3.6, 61 km (38 mi) NNW, at 12:34 am PDT on 18 July 2026, estimated intensity II (weak) in town; 4 felt reports to USGS. Every earthquake near Pahrump
This page: a magnitude 1.6 earthquake was recorded 29 km (18 mi) north of Pahrump, NV, at 9:41 am PDT on 26 August 2024 (16:41 UTC), 9.3 km deep.
USGS: 28 km N of Pahrump, Nevada
72 km (45 mi) WNW of Las Vegas, NV
- When
- 9:41 am PDT on 26 August 2024 ()
- Where
- 29 km (18 mi) north of Pahrump, NV · earthquakes near Pahrump
- Magnitude
- M 1.6 (ml)
- Depth
- 9.3 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Clark County, 94 km ESE
- Nearest mapped fault
- West Spring Mountains fault, 9 km from its surface trace — near is not the same as on
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 809 days ago
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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 6 km (4 mi) from the epicentre. In Pahrump, 29 km away, the estimate is intensity I (not felt). 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 7.6 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,000,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.6 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 4.4 on 2024-08-14 — about 15,000 times the energy of this one.
Before 2016, the USGS record lists one earthquake of M5 or more within 50 km:
- 5.8 47 km ESE of Beatty, Nevada · 36 km NW of this epicentre
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 36.4677, -116.0180. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction from the epicentre | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clark County, NV | 94 km (59 mi) | ESE | earthquakes near Clark County |
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.
- 2.0 34 km SE of Beatty, Nevada
- 1.5 25 km NNW of Indian Springs, Nevada
- 1.7 11 km SE of Indian Springs, Nevada
- 2.4 40 km NW of Indian Springs, Nevada
- 2.6 40 km NW of Indian Springs, Nevada
- 1.9 40 km NW of Indian Springs, Nevada
- 2.2 24 km N of Indian Springs, Nevada
- 1.7 26 km NNW of Indian Springs, Nevada
- 1.6 6 km N of Mount Charleston, Nevada
- 1.8 40 km NW of Indian Springs, Nevada
- 2.0 44 km SE of Beatty, Nevada
- 2.8 44 km SE of Beatty, Nevada
- 1.6 15 km NE of Mount Charleston, Nevada
- 2.1 35 km NW of Indian Springs, Nevada
- 1.8 48 km WNW of Indian Springs, 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.
On USGS
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- ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one
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