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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

20 km SSW of Silver Peak, Nevada

· 4.2 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Esmeralda County 23 kmMono County 107 kmInyo County 118 kmMineral County 119 kmNye County 120 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
4.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Esmeralda County, 23 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 461 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 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.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 89× the energy of this one
  4. 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.

Where

Epicentre 37.5917, -117.7351. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Esmeralda County, NV 23 km (14 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Mono County, CA 107 km (66 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Inyo County, CA 118 km (73 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Mineral County, NV 119 km (74 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Nye County, NV 120 km (74 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Nye 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. 1.6 15 km WNW of Silver Peak, Nevada
  2. 1.8 23 km SSE of Dyer, Nevada
  3. 1.7 23 km NE of Big Pine, California
  4. 3.6 7 km SE of Deep Springs, CA
  5. 1.6 38 km ENE of Big Pine, California
  6. 1.5 56 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada
  7. 1.5 20 km SSW of Silver Peak, Nevada
  8. 1.6 34 km SSE of Silver Peak, Nevada
  9. 2.4 19 km WNW of Silver Peak, Nevada
  10. 1.9 8 km SE of Deep Springs, CA
  11. 1.7 39 km ENE of Big Pine, California
  12. 2.1 46 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  13. 1.8 26 km NNW of Dyer, Nevada
  14. 1.6 43 km SSE of Silver Peak, Nevada
  15. 1.6 40 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.8 on 2022-01-06 — it released about 38,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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