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M 2.3ml

Earthquake near Enterprise, NV

No earthquake was likely felt in Enterprise in the 24 hours to 10:14 am PST (18:14 UTC). The last one was M 2.0, 10 km (6 mi) SSE, at 1:03 pm PDT on 29 October 2026, estimated intensity II (weak) in town; 1 felt report to USGS. Every earthquake near Enterprise

This page: a magnitude 2.3 earthquake was recorded 4 km (2 mi) south-southwest of Enterprise, NV, at 2:33 pm PDT on 16 October 2025 (21:33 UTC), 2.9 km deep. The magnitude and location are an automatic first estimate and may change.

USGS: 3 km SSW of Enterprise, Nevada

27 km (17 mi) S of Las Vegas, NV · 21 km (13 mi) W of Henderson, NV

2:33 pm PDT, Oct 16, 2025 · · 2.9 km deep · released about 85 lb of TNT

10 km30 km60 km120 km N Clark County 33 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
2:33 pm PDT on 16 October 2025 ()
Where
4 km (2 mi) south-southwest of Enterprise, NV · earthquakes near Enterprise
Magnitude
M 2.3 (ml)
Depth
2.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Clark County, 33 km NE
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 392 days ago

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 20 km (12 mi) from the epicentre. In Enterprise, 4 km away, the estimate is intensity III (weak). 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.

Earthquakes near other towns within 30 km: Spring Valley, Paradise, Summerlin South, Winchester, Las Vegas, Whitney.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 85 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 130,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 11× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 85 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 4.5 on 2018-07-05 — about 2,000 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists one earthquake of M5 or more within 50 km:

  1. 5.0 1 km SE of Boulder City, Nevada · 40 km E of this epicentre

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 35.9934, -115.2561. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection from the epicentre
Clark County, NV 33 km (20 mi) NE earthquakes near Clark County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 4 km N of Blue Diamond, Nevada
  2. 1.9 6 km N of Boulder City, Nevada
  3. 1.8 11 km WNW of Summerlin South, Nevada
  4. 1.6 8 km NW of Summerlin South, Nevada
  5. 3.8 11 km NW of Summerlin South, Nevada
  6. 2.0 9 km SE of Enterprise, Nevada
  7. 1.7 14 km S of Enterprise, Nevada
  8. 1.5 1 km NNE of Whitney, Nevada
  9. 1.6 8 km S of Henderson, Nevada
  10. 1.9 10 km NNE of Summerlin South, Nevada
  11. 1.6 8 km N of Boulder City, Nevada
  12. 1.9 12 km NNW of Nelson, Nevada
  13. 1.7 3 km W of Las Vegas, Nevada
  14. 2.1 9 km SE of Enterprise, Nevada
  15. 1.7 7 km NW of Summerlin South, 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.

On USGS

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