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explosion · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

22 km ENE of Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada

· 0.0 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
0.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Clark County, 22 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 583 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

USGS catalogues this as explosion, not an earthquake.

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.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. 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.

Where

Epicentre 36.3580, -114.8482. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Clark County, NV 22 km (14 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Clark County
Mohave County, AZ 122 km (76 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Mohave County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 8 km S of Henderson, Nevada
  2. 1.8 17 km ENE of Boulder City, Nevada
  3. 1.9 10 km NNE of Summerlin South, Nevada
  4. 1.6 8 km N of Boulder City, Nevada
  5. 1.6 31 km N of Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada
  6. 1.7 3 km W of Las Vegas, Nevada
  7. 1.8 2 km ESE of Spring Valley, Nevada
  8. 1.8 18 km NE of Henderson, Nevada
  9. 1.5 5 km N of Summerlin South, Nevada
  10. 1.7 5 km ENE of Whitney, Nevada
  11. 1.9 5 km NNE of Whitney, Nevada
  12. 1.6 14 km N of Summerlin South, Nevada
  13. 1.8 3 km WSW of Boulder City, Nevada
  14. 1.7 15 km NW of Las Vegas, Nevada
  15. 1.7 2 km WNW of Whitney, 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.

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