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M 2.9ml

35 km NW of Rachel, Nevada

· 9.3 km deep · released about 570 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.9 (ml)
Depth
9.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Nye County, 38 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 173 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 570 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 27,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 19,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.7× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.9 about 570 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 37.8559, -116.0457. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Nye County, NV 38 km (24 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Nye County
Lincoln County, NV 107 km (66 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Lincoln County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 33 km NNW of Rachel, Nevada
  2. 2.4 81 km NW of Rachel, Nevada
  3. 1.7 69 km E of Tonopah, Nevada
  4. 1.6 42 km WNW of Rachel, Nevada
  5. 3.0 55 km NNW of Rachel, Nevada
  6. 1.6 21 km NNW of Rachel, Nevada
  7. 1.5 24 km WNW of Rachel, Nevada
  8. 1.7 53 km W of Rachel, Nevada
  9. 1.7 35 km NW of Rachel, Nevada
  10. 2.2 69 km NNW of Rachel, Nevada
  11. 1.5 4 km NW of Rachel, Nevada
  12. 1.6 38 km WNW of Rachel, Nevada
  13. 1.6 70 km WNW of Rachel, Nevada
  14. 2.0 29 km NW of Rachel, 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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