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M 1.6ml

Earthquake near Battle Mountain, NV

No earthquake was likely felt in Battle Mountain in the 24 hours to 12:21 am PST (08:21 UTC). The last one was M 5.7, 229 km (142 mi) SW, at 6:29 pm PDT on 13 April 2026, estimated intensity II (weak) in town; 6,515 felt reports to USGS. Every earthquake near Battle Mountain

This page: a magnitude 1.6 earthquake was recorded 40 km (25 mi) east-northeast of Battle Mountain, NV, at 5:21 am PDT on 30 October 2025 (12:21 UTC), 13 km deep.

USGS: 32 km W of Carlin, Nevada

5:21 am PDT, Oct 30, 2025 · · 13 km deep · released about 6.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Eureka County 88 kmElko County 105 kmLander County 106 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
5:21 am PDT on 30 October 2025 ()
Where
40 km (25 mi) east-northeast of Battle Mountain, NV · earthquakes near Battle Mountain
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
13 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Eureka County, 88 km SSE
Nearest mapped fault
Shoshone Range fault, 1 km from its surface trace — near is not the same as on
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 379 days ago

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

At this magnitude and depth it was probably too small to be felt, even directly above it. In Battle Mountain, 40 km away, the estimate is intensity I (not felt). 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 6.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 150× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 6.4 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 2025-08-30 — about 75,000 times the energy of this one.

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

  1. 5.1 21 km NNE of Crescent Valley, Nevada · 17 km S 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 40.7503, -116.4855. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection from the epicentre
Eureka County, NV 88 km (55 mi) SSE earthquakes near Eureka County
Elko County, NV 105 km (65 mi) ENE earthquakes near Elko County
Lander County, NV 106 km (66 mi) SSW earthquakes near Lander County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.5 51 km NE of Valmy, Nevada
  2. 1.6 52 km NNW of Carlin, Nevada
  3. 2.4 49 km NE of Valmy, Nevada
  4. 2.5 49 km NE of Valmy, Nevada
  5. 2.4 51 km NE of Valmy, Nevada
  6. 1.5 50 km NE of Valmy, Nevada
  7. 1.9 48 km NE of Valmy, Nevada
  8. 2.4 51 km NE of Valmy, Nevada
  9. 2.0 48 km NE of Valmy, Nevada
  10. 2.5 50 km NE of Valmy, Nevada
  11. 1.9 51 km NE of Valmy, Nevada
  12. 1.8 51 km NE of Valmy, Nevada
  13. 2.5 50 km NE of Valmy, Nevada
  14. 2.2 50 km NE of Valmy, Nevada
  15. 1.8 52 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.

On USGS

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