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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.4mw

19 km SSW of Silver Peak, Nevada

· 6.1 km deep · released about 1.9 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Esmeralda County 22 kmMono County 107 kmInyo County 118 kmMineral County 119 kmNye County 119 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 3.4 (mw)
Depth
6.1 km below the surface
Felt
3 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Measured shaking
intensity III (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Esmeralda County, 22 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 390 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 3 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1.9 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 89,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 4,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,800× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.4 about 1.9 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 4× more

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 37.5936, -117.7287. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Esmeralda County, NV 22 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 119 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. 1.7 38 km ENE of Big Pine, California
  2. 1.6 15 km WNW of Silver Peak, Nevada
  3. 1.8 23 km SSE of Dyer, Nevada
  4. 1.7 23 km NE of Big Pine, California
  5. 3.6 7 km SE of Deep Springs, CA
  6. 1.6 38 km ENE of Big Pine, California
  7. 1.5 56 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada
  8. 1.5 20 km SSW of Silver Peak, Nevada
  9. 1.6 34 km SSE of Silver Peak, Nevada
  10. 2.4 19 km WNW of Silver Peak, Nevada
  11. 1.9 8 km SE of Deep Springs, CA
  12. 1.7 39 km ENE of Big Pine, California
  13. 2.1 46 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  14. 1.8 26 km NNW of Dyer, Nevada
  15. 1.6 43 km SSE of Silver Peak, 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 4.8 on 2022-01-06 — it released about 110 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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