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M 2.3ml

28 km ENE of Beatty, Nevada

· 11 km deep · released about 74 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Inyo County, 97 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 265 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 74 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 200,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 140,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 13× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 74 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 37.0389, -116.4892. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Inyo County, CA 97 km (60 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Nye County, NV 103 km (64 mi) S of here earthquakes near Nye County
Esmeralda County, NV 130 km (81 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.6 17 km SSW of Beatty, Nevada
  2. 3.6 45 km SE of Beatty, Nevada
  3. 3.4 47 km SE of Beatty, Nevada
  4. 2.9 46 km SE of Beatty, Nevada
  5. 2.5 46 km SE of Beatty, Nevada
  6. 1.6 46 km SE of Beatty, Nevada
  7. 1.8 56 km ESE of Goldfield, Nevada
  8. 1.6 55 km ESE of Goldfield, Nevada
  9. 1.6 59 km NNE of Beatty, Nevada
  10. 1.6 46 km NNE of Beatty, Nevada
  11. 1.9 48 km NNE of Beatty, Nevada
  12. 1.7 41 km NNE of Beatty, Nevada
  13. 1.9 47 km ESE of Beatty, Nevada
  14. 1.5 34 km ENE of Beatty, Nevada
  15. 1.6 46 km NE of Beatty, 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.

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