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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.7mw

13 km ESE of Hawthorne, Nevada

· 7.4 km deep · released about 5.4 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mineral County 6 kmMono County 72 kmLyon County 86 kmEsmeralda County 108 kmDouglas County 108 kmAlpine County 116 kmChurchill County 118 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 3.7 (mw)
Depth
7.4 km below the surface
Felt
10 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Mineral County, 6 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 547 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 10 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 5.4 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 32,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.7 about 5.4 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 11× 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 38.4888, -118.4801. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mineral County, NV 6 km (4 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Mono County, CA 72 km (45 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Lyon County, NV 86 km (53 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Esmeralda County, NV 108 km (67 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Douglas County, NV 108 km (67 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Alpine County, CA 116 km (72 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

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

  1. 1.9 30 km ENE of Bridgeport, California
  2. 2.1 12 km S of Schurz, Nevada
  3. 1.5 6 km ENE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  4. 1.8 17 km NNW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  5. 1.7 30 km SW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  6. 1.6 17 km S of Schurz, Nevada
  7. 1.5 16 km NNW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  8. 2.7 17 km S of Schurz, Nevada
  9. 1.7 30 km ENE of Bridgeport, California
  10. 1.6 16 km NNW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  11. 2.8 34 km SSE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  12. 1.8 30 km ENE of Bridgeport, California
  13. 1.8 30 km ENE of Bridgeport, California
  14. 1.7 13 km ESE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  15. 1.9 24 km ESE of Schurz, 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 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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