26 km ESE of Dyer, Nevada

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 18 km (11 mi) from the epicentre. Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 60 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 250,000× the energy of this one
2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 180,000× the energy of this one
3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 16× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 2.2 about 60 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km since 2016 was M 4.8 on 2022-01-06 — about 6,700 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 6 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:

1. 6.1 46km E of Big Pine, California · 43 km S of this epicentre May 17, 1993
2. 5.6 24 km WSW of Dyer, Nevada · 48 km W of this epicentre Jul 21, 1986
3. 5.5 30km WSW of Tonopah, NV · 49 km NNE of this epicentre Feb 11, 1949
4. 5.4 16 km NNW of Dyer, Nevada · 40 km NW of this epicentre Nov 2, 1997
5. 5.3 47km NNE of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA · 42 km NW of this epicentre Feb 2, 1961

Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.

Where

Epicentre 37.5514, -117.8080. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

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

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 2.7 17 km ENE of Deep Springs, CA 00:56 UTC
2. 1.5 3 km ESE of Dyer, Nevada 20:48 UTC
3. 1.6 43 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada 21:21 UTC
4. 1.9 13 km NNE of Deep Springs, CA 13:55 UTC
5. 1.6 8 km SE of Deep Springs, CA 00:15 UTC
6. 2.1 51 km E of Big Pine, California 20:15 UTC
7. 1.5 19 km SE of Silver Peak, Nevada 03:03 UTC
8. 1.6 43 km SSE of Dyer, Nevada 02:29 UTC
9. 1.6 21 km SSW of Silver Peak, Nevada 19:09 UTC
10. 1.6 20 km SSW of Silver Peak, Nevada 16:17 UTC
11. 2.1 21 km SSW of Silver Peak, Nevada 13:03 UTC
12. 1.9 7 km SE of Deep Springs, CA 18:25 UTC
13. 1.5 15 km NE of Big Pine, California 09:29 UTC
14. 1.8 28 km S of Dyer, Nevada 16:33 UTC
15. 1.7 38 km ENE of Big Pine, California 09:30 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 20:20 UTC. QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

On USGS

• The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
• Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
• ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

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