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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5ml

15 km S of Gabbs, Nevada

· 10 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mineral County 47 kmChurchill County 94 kmEsmeralda County 109 kmLyon County 113 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 1.5 (ml)
Depth
10 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mineral County, 47 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 663 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 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.

Where

Epicentre 38.7280, -117.9488. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mineral County, NV 47 km (29 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Churchill County, NV 94 km (58 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Esmeralda County, NV 109 km (68 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Lyon County, NV 113 km (70 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Mono County, CA 121 km (75 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Mono County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 24 km WNW of Gabbs, Nevada
  2. 1.8 43 km ENE of Mina, Nevada
  3. 2.0 30 km ENE of Gabbs, Nevada
  4. 2.0 21 km SSW of Gabbs, Nevada
  5. 1.9 30 km ENE of Gabbs, Nevada
  6. 1.6 21 km W of Mina, Nevada
  7. 1.7 21 km W of Mina, Nevada
  8. 2.4 44 km ENE of Mina, Nevada
  9. 1.6 16 km NNW of Mina, Nevada
  10. 2.4 36 km W of Gabbs, Nevada
  11. 2.1 11 km E of Mina, Nevada
  12. 1.9 11 km E of Mina, Nevada
  13. 2.6 11 km E of Mina, Nevada
  14. 1.5 11 km E of Mina, Nevada
  15. 1.9 11 km E of Mina, 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 4.3 on 2016-03-21 — it released about 16,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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