Earthquake · automatic estimate, may change
M 2.5ml
28 km SE of Kingston, Nevada
Yes. A magnitude 2.5 earthquake was recorded 28 km SE of Kingston, Nevada, at 4:55 am PDT on 25 October 2025 (11:55 UTC), 1.3 km deep. The magnitude and location are an automatic first estimate and may change.
- When
- Magnitude
- M 2.5 (ml)
- Depth
- 1.3 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Lander County, 100 km N
- Nearest mapped fault
- Central Monitor Valley fault, 16 km from its surface trace — near is not the same as on
- Status
- Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 384 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 22 km (14 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 160 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 92,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 65,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 5.8× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 2.5 about 160 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 4.1 on 2024-06-29 — about 230 times the energy of this one.
Before 2016, the USGS record since 1900 lists no earthquake of M5 or more within 50 km.
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 39.0149, -116.8573. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction from the epicentre | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lander County, NV | 100 km (62 mi) | N | earthquakes near Lander County |
| Eureka County, NV | 118 km (73 mi) | NNE | earthquakes near Eureka County |
| Nye County, NV | 122 km (76 mi) | SSE | earthquakes near Nye County |
Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.
Aftershocks so far
45 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
- 1.3 57 km S of Kingston, Nevada
- 1.7 59 km S of Kingston, Nevada
- 1.0 56 km S of Kingston, Nevada
- 1.0 56 km S of Kingston, Nevada
- 2.1 53 km S of Kingston, Nevada
- 1.2 55 km S of Kingston, Nevada
- 1.9 55 km S of Kingston, Nevada
- 1.1 59 km S of Kingston, Nevada
- 1.9 55 km S of Kingston, Nevada
- 1.1 58 km S of Kingston, Nevada
- 1.9 58 km S of Kingston, Nevada
- 1.5 57 km S of Kingston, Nevada
- 1.9 58 km S of Kingston, Nevada
- 1.6 60 km S of Kingston, Nevada
- 1.9 60 km S of Kingston, 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
- 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
QuakeIndex does not issue warnings. For earthquake early warning see ShakeAlert.