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M 1.5ml

56 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada

· 5.5 km deep · released about 5.7 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Esmeralda County 65 kmInyo County 73 kmNye County 119 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
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
5.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Esmeralda County, 65 km NNW
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 267 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 5.7 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 2,600,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,900,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 170× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.7 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 37.2208, -117.4244. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Esmeralda County, NV 65 km (40 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Inyo County, CA 73 km (46 mi) N of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Nye County, NV 119 km (74 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Nye County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 63 km WNW of Beatty, Nevada
  2. 2.1 40 km SE of Goldfield, Nevada
  3. 1.6 15 km WSW of Goldfield, Nevada
  4. 1.8 41 km E of Big Pine, California
  5. 1.8 25 km SSW of Silver Peak, Nevada
  6. 2.3 40 km SE of Goldfield, Nevada
  7. 1.9 40 km E of Big Pine, California
  8. 1.8 55 km E of Big Pine, California
  9. 1.9 36 km ESE of Big Pine, CA
  10. 1.5 37 km E of Big Pine, California
  11. 1.6 47 km E of Big Pine, California
  12. 1.5 55 km S of Goldfield, Nevada
  13. 1.8 51 km WNW of Beatty, Nevada
  14. 1.6 51 km WNW of Beatty, Nevada
  15. 1.9 47 km NE of Independence, CA

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 4.8 on 2022-01-06 — it released about 70,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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