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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.4ml

12 km ESE of Hawthorne, Nevada

· 10 km deep · released about 120 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mineral County 7 kmMono County 73 kmLyon County 85 kmDouglas County 107 kmEsmeralda County 110 kmAlpine County 115 kmChurchill County 117 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.4 (ml)
Depth
10 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mineral County, 7 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 556 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 120 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 130,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 89,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 7.9× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 120 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 38.4979, -118.4898. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mineral County, NV 7 km (4 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Mono County, CA 73 km (45 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Lyon County, NV 85 km (53 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Douglas County, NV 107 km (67 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Esmeralda County, NV 110 km (68 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Alpine County, CA 115 km (71 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

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

  1. 1.6 17 km S of Schurz, Nevada
  2. 1.5 16 km NNW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  3. 2.7 17 km S of Schurz, Nevada
  4. 1.7 30 km ENE of Bridgeport, California
  5. 1.6 16 km NNW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  6. 2.8 34 km SSE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  7. 1.8 30 km ENE of Bridgeport, California
  8. 1.8 30 km ENE of Bridgeport, California
  9. 1.7 13 km ESE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  10. 1.9 24 km ESE of Schurz, Nevada
  11. 2.0 32 km SSE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  12. 1.8 29 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  13. 1.5 30 km ENE of Bridgeport, California
  14. 1.6 27 km SSW of Mina, Nevada
  15. 2.0 18 km NNE of Hawthorne, 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 63,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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