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M 1.6ml

34 km SSW of Caliente, Nevada

· 3.7 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
3.7 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lincoln County, 37 km NNW
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 316 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 7.6 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.6 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 37.3344, -114.6707. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lincoln County, NV 37 km (23 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Washington County, UT 105 km (65 mi) W of here earthquakes near Washington County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 21 km ESE of Alamo, Nevada
  2. 1.5 31 km ESE of Alamo, Nevada
  3. 1.8 27 km E of Alamo, Nevada
  4. 1.6 13 km S of Alamo, Nevada
  5. 2.6 44 km NNW of Moapa Town, Nevada
  6. 1.9 27 km SE of Caliente, Nevada
  7. 2.7 40 km SE of Alamo, Nevada
  8. 1.8 15 km ENE of Hiko, Nevada
  9. 1.7 15 km SSW of Alamo, Nevada
  10. 1.7 45 km ESE of Alamo, Nevada
  11. 2.3 28 km SE of Caliente, Nevada
  12. 1.7 21 km E of Alamo, Nevada
  13. 1.6 27 km SSE of Caliente, Nevada
  14. 1.7 29 km NNE of Moapa Town, Nevada
  15. 2.0 33 km SSW of Caliente, 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 4.0 on 2025-06-06 — it released about 4,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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