Earthquake · automatic estimate, may change
M 2.0ml
30 km ENE of Gabbs, Nevada
- When
- Magnitude
- M 2.0 (ml)
- Depth
- 1.7 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Churchill County, 84 km NW
- Status
- Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 318 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 30 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.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 500,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 350,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 32× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 2.0 about 30 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 38.9824, -117.5987. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Churchill County, NV | 84 km (52 mi) | SE of here | earthquakes near Churchill County |
| Mineral County, NV | 88 km (55 mi) | NE of here | earthquakes near Mineral County |
| Lander County, NV | 113 km (70 mi) | SSW of here | earthquakes near Lander County |
| Nye County, NV | 150 km (93 mi) | NW of here | earthquakes near Nye County |
| Eureka County, NV | 159 km (99 mi) | SW of here | earthquakes near Eureka County |
| Mono County, CA | 163 km (101 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
11 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
- 1.5 57 km S of Kingston, Nevada
- 1.6 21 km NW of Gabbs, Nevada
- 1.7 20 km NW of Gabbs, Nevada
- 1.8 44 km W of Austin, Nevada
- 1.9 56 km S of Kingston, Nevada
- 2.2 57 km S of Kingston, Nevada
- 2.1 56 km S of Kingston, Nevada
- 1.8 62 km N of Tonopah, Nevada
- 1.6 30 km ENE of Gabbs, Nevada
- 2.4 31 km ENE of Gabbs, Nevada
- 1.6 47 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
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