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M 3.0ml

39 km SSW of Caliente, Nevada

· 0.0 km deep · released about 950 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.0 (ml)
Depth
0.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lincoln County, 40 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 430 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 950 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 16,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 11,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 950 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 37.2969, -114.7173. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lincoln County, NV 40 km (25 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Washington County, UT 109 km (68 mi) W of here earthquakes near Washington County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.6 18 km SE of Alamo, Nevada
  2. 1.5 48 km N of Moapa Town, Nevada
  3. 1.8 13 km SSW of Caliente, Nevada
  4. 1.9 47 km ESE of Alamo, Nevada
  5. 1.6 16 km SSW of Caliente, Nevada
  6. 1.6 11 km NNW of Alamo, Nevada
  7. 1.7 7 km ESE of Hiko, Nevada
  8. 1.7 37 km SSE of Caliente, Nevada
  9. 1.9 44 km S of Alamo, Nevada
  10. 1.5 40 km SSE of Alamo, Nevada
  11. 1.6 39 km SE of Caliente, Nevada
  12. 1.6 23 km SE of Alamo, Nevada
  13. 1.6 43 km SSW of Caliente, Nevada
  14. 1.6 12 km SSW of Caliente, Nevada
  15. 2.1 44 km ESE of Alamo, 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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