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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.8ml

34 km SSE of Hawthorne, Nevada

· 8.7 km deep · released about 480 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mineral County 33 kmMono County 47 kmEsmeralda County 92 kmLyon County 107 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 2.8 (ml)
Depth
8.7 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Mineral County, 33 km NNE
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. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 480 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 32,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 22,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.8 about 480 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 38.2291, -118.5099. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mineral County, NV 33 km (21 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Mono County, CA 47 km (29 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Esmeralda County, NV 92 km (57 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Lyon County, NV 107 km (66 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Alpine County, CA 120 km (75 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Douglas County, NV 122 km (76 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Douglas 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. 1.8 26 km NNW of Dyer, Nevada
  2. 1.8 34 km E of Bridgeport, California
  3. 1.6 32 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  4. 2.4 14 km E of Bodie, CA
  5. 1.7 22 km W of Mina, Nevada
  6. 2.3 28 km SSE of Mina, Nevada
  7. 1.9 27 km SE of Bodie, CA
  8. 1.5 30 km ENE of Lee Vining, California
  9. 1.6 21 km W of Mina, Nevada
  10. 1.5 21 km W of Mina, Nevada
  11. 1.7 21 km W of Mina, Nevada
  12. 1.9 30 km NE of Mono City, California
  13. 1.7 30 km NE of Mono City, California
  14. 1.7 28 km SSW of Mina, Nevada
  15. 1.6 28 km SE of Bodie, CA

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 16,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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