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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.8ml

46 km E of Beatty, Nevada

· 11 km deep · released about 450 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.8 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Inyo County, 110 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 261 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 450 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 34,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 24,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2.1× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.8 about 450 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 36.8960, -116.2368. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Inyo County, CA 110 km (69 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Nye County, NV 121 km (75 mi) S of here earthquakes near Nye County
Clark County, NV 133 km (83 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Clark County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 18 km NNW of Indian Springs, Nevada
  2. 2.2 17 km NNW of Indian Springs, Nevada
  3. 3.2 18 km NNW of Indian Springs, Nevada
  4. 1.6 18 km NNW of Indian Springs, Nevada
  5. 2.6 18 km NNW of Indian Springs, Nevada
  6. 1.6 46 km SE of Beatty, Nevada
  7. 1.8 17 km NNW of Indian Springs, Nevada
  8. 1.5 45 km E of Furnace Creek, California
  9. 1.9 48 km NNE of Beatty, Nevada
  10. 1.7 41 km NNE of Beatty, Nevada
  11. 2.5 34 km W of Indian Springs, Nevada
  12. 1.9 47 km ESE of Beatty, Nevada
  13. 1.5 34 km ENE of Beatty, Nevada
  14. 1.5 19 km NNW of Indian Springs, Nevada
  15. 2.1 18 km NNW of Indian Springs, 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 2017-07-17 — it released about 95 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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