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M 2.3ml

38 km S of Goldfield, Nevada

· 5.8 km deep · released about 85 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Esmeralda County 61 kmInyo County 91 kmNye County 93 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (ml)
Depth
5.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Esmeralda County, 61 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 524 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 85 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 130,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 11× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 85 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 37.3632, -117.1869. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Esmeralda County, NV 61 km (38 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Inyo County, CA 91 km (57 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Nye County, NV 93 km (58 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Nye County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 10 km ENE of Goldfield, Nevada
  2. 1.7 9 km ENE of Goldfield, Nevada
  3. 1.6 8 km ENE of Goldfield, Nevada
  4. 1.8 40 km SE of Goldfield, Nevada
  5. 1.8 10 km ENE of Goldfield, Nevada
  6. 1.7 10 km ENE of Goldfield, Nevada
  7. 1.6 38 km NW of Beatty, Nevada
  8. 1.6 17 km E of Goldfield, Nevada
  9. 1.8 37 km WNW of Beatty, Nevada
  10. 1.8 49 km S of Goldfield, Nevada
  11. 3.1 38 km NW of Beatty, Nevada
  12. 1.5 38 km NW of Beatty, Nevada
  13. 1.5 56 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada
  14. 1.6 58 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada
  15. 1.7 51 km WNW of Beatty, 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 2023-05-21 — it released about 870 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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