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M 3.0ml

53 km NE of Valmy, Nevada

· 8.2 km deep · released about 950 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.0 (ml)
Depth
8.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Measured shaking
intensity III (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Elko County, 110 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 312 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 950 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 16,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 11,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 950 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 41.1269, -116.6683. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Elko County, NV 110 km (69 mi) W of here earthquakes near Elko County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 51 km NE of Valmy, Nevada
  2. 2.2 51 km NE of Valmy, Nevada
  3. 3.0 50 km NE of Valmy, Nevada
  4. 1.9 54 km NE of Valmy, Nevada
  5. 1.6 55 km NE of Valmy, Nevada
  6. 2.4 61 km NE of Valmy, Nevada
  7. 1.9 53 km NE of Valmy, Nevada
  8. 1.6 49 km NE of Valmy, Nevada
  9. 2.5 53 km NE of Valmy, Nevada
  10. 1.6 56 km NE of Valmy, Nevada
  11. 2.8 53 km NE of Valmy, Nevada
  12. 3.7 59 km NE of Valmy, Nevada
  13. 1.9 53 km NE of Valmy, Nevada
  14. 2.0 51 km NE of Valmy, Nevada
  15. 1.9 54 km NE of Valmy, 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.

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