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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.9ml

12 km E of Hawthorne, Nevada

· 12 km deep · released about 21 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mineral County 6 kmMono County 76 kmLyon County 83 kmDouglas County 106 kmEsmeralda County 111 kmChurchill County 114 kmAlpine County 115 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 1.9 (ml)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mineral County, 6 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 440 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 21 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 710,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 500,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 45× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 21 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 38.5239, -118.4841. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mineral County, NV 6 km (4 mi) W of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Mono County, CA 76 km (47 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Lyon County, NV 83 km (52 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Douglas County, NV 106 km (66 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Esmeralda County, NV 111 km (69 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Churchill County, NV 114 km (71 mi) S of here earthquakes near Churchill County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 24 km SSW of Mina, Nevada
  2. 2.7 29 km ENE of Bridgeport, California
  3. 1.8 16 km NNW of Mina, Nevada
  4. 1.8 19 km NW of Mina, Nevada
  5. 1.8 12 km ESE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  6. 1.5 17 km S of Hawthorne, Nevada
  7. 1.7 13 km ESE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  8. 1.7 13 km W of Mina, Nevada
  9. 1.7 10 km E of Mina, Nevada
  10. 1.6 21 km SSW of Mina, Nevada
  11. 2.0 15 km E of Walker Lake, Nevada
  12. 1.5 24 km SSW of Mina, Nevada
  13. 1.6 30 km NE of Mono City, California
  14. 2.2 16 km NNE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  15. 2.6 16 km E of Walker Lake, 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 5.6 on 2016-12-28 — it released about 350,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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