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Earthquake · automatic estimate, may change

M 2.0ml

21 km SSW of Gabbs, Nevada

· 16 km deep · released about 36 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mineral County 41 kmChurchill County 98 kmEsmeralda County 105 kmLyon County 111 kmMono County 115 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (ml)
Depth
16 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mineral County, 41 km WSW
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 327 days ago

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

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 36 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 420,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 300,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 27× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 36 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 38.6798, -117.9922. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mineral County, NV 41 km (26 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Churchill County, NV 98 km (61 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Esmeralda County, NV 105 km (65 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Lyon County, NV 111 km (69 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Mono County, CA 115 km (71 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Mono County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.5 23 km NE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  2. 1.5 17 km NNW of Mina, Nevada
  3. 1.6 6 km SW of Mina, Nevada
  4. 1.6 21 km NW of Gabbs, Nevada
  5. 1.7 20 km NW of Gabbs, Nevada
  6. 1.7 34 km WNW of Gabbs, Nevada
  7. 1.6 16 km NNW of Mina, Nevada
  8. 1.6 21 km WNW of Mina, Nevada
  9. 1.7 16 km NNW of Mina, Nevada
  10. 2.1 16 km NNW of Mina, Nevada
  11. 1.9 22 km W of Mina, Nevada
  12. 1.7 20 km SE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  13. 2.2 10 km NNW of Mina, Nevada
  14. 1.6 17 km NE of Mina, Nevada
  15. 1.7 20 km NE of Mina, 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 4.3 on 2016-03-21 — it released about 2,400 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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