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M 3.1ml

64 km E of Lovelock, Nevada

· 6.5 km deep · released about 1,300 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lander County 64 kmPershing County 66 kmChurchill County 84 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 3.1 (ml)
Depth
6.5 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Lander County, 64 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 351 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,300 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 250,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 11,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 7,900× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.1 about 1,300 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.4× 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 40.1638, -117.7186. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lander County, NV 64 km (40 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Lander County
Pershing County, NV 66 km (41 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Pershing County
Churchill County, NV 84 km (52 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Churchill County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 34 km E of Lovelock, Nevada
  2. 1.9 57 km ESE of Lovelock, Nevada
  3. 1.9 56 km ESE of Lovelock, Nevada
  4. 1.9 30 km ENE of Lovelock, Nevada
  5. 1.6 72 km NW of Austin, Nevada
  6. 1.8 35 km SSE of Humboldt, Nevada
  7. 1.7 29 km ENE of Lovelock, Nevada
  8. 1.5 31 km ENE of Lovelock, Nevada
  9. 1.6 58 km ESE of Lovelock, Nevada
  10. 1.6 29 km ENE of Lovelock, Nevada
  11. 1.7 30 km ENE of Lovelock, Nevada
  12. 1.9 63 km ESE of Lovelock, Nevada
  13. 1.7 67 km SE of Lovelock, Nevada
  14. 1.7 51 km ESE of Lovelock, Nevada
  15. 2.6 37 km ESE of Imlay, 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 4.1 on 2019-04-28 — it released about 32 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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