Earthquake · automatic estimate, may change
M 1.7ml
17 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
Yes. A magnitude 1.7 earthquake was recorded 17 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada, at 8:51 am PDT on 22 March 2025 (15:51 UTC), 10 km deep. The magnitude and location are an automatic first estimate and may change.
- When
- Magnitude
- M 1.7 (ml)
- Depth
- 10 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Esmeralda County, 20 km N
- Status
- Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 601 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 7 km (4 mi) from the epicentre. 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 11 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 89× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 4.8 on 2022-01-06 — about 38,000 times the energy of this one.
Before 2016, the USGS record lists 4 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km:
- 6.1 46km E of Big Pine, California · 50 km SSW of this epicentre
- 5.5 30km WSW of Tonopah, NV · 39 km NNE of this epicentre
- 5.4 16 km NNW of Dyer, Nevada · 48 km WNW of this epicentre
- 5.0 21 km NNW of Dyer, Nevada · 50 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 37.6021, -117.6553. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction from the epicentre | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Esmeralda County, NV | 20 km (12 mi) | N | earthquakes near Esmeralda County |
| Nye County, NV | 113 km (70 mi) | ENE | earthquakes near Nye County |
| Mono County, CA | 113 km (70 mi) | WNW | earthquakes near Mono County |
| Inyo County, CA | 118 km (73 mi) | S | earthquakes near Inyo County |
| Mineral County, NV | 122 km (76 mi) | NNW | earthquakes near Mineral County |
Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.
Aftershocks so far
50 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
- 1.7 48 km S of Goldfield, Nevada
- 2.2 26 km ESE of Dyer, Nevada
- 2.5 19 km SSW of Silver Peak, Nevada
- 1.7 7 km SSE of Deep Springs, CA
- 2.0 8 km SE of Deep Springs, CA
- 1.6 29 km N of Dyer, Nevada
- 2.5 14 km E of Deep Springs, CA
- 2.0 35 km ENE of Big Pine, California
- 1.5 37 km SSE of Dyer, Nevada
- 1.8 12 km ENE of Deep Springs, CA
- 1.9 53 km E of Big Pine, California
- 1.5 39 km ENE of Big Pine, California
- 2.7 8 km SE of Deep Springs, CA
- 1.6 20 km SSW of Silver Peak, Nevada
- 1.5 38 km ENE of Big Pine, California
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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