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M 1.7ml

37 km SSE of Caliente, Nevada

· 13 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lincoln County 58 kmWashington County 77 kmIron County 115 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
13 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lincoln County, 58 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 243 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 11 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 89× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 37.2983, -114.3565. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lincoln County, NV 58 km (36 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Washington County, UT 77 km (48 mi) W of here earthquakes near Washington County
Iron County, UT 115 km (71 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Iron County
Beaver County, UT 153 km (95 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Beaver County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 31 km ESE of Alamo, Nevada
  2. 1.8 27 km E of Alamo, Nevada
  3. 2.6 44 km NNW of Moapa Town, Nevada
  4. 1.9 27 km SE of Caliente, Nevada
  5. 2.7 40 km SE of Alamo, Nevada
  6. 1.7 45 km ESE of Alamo, Nevada
  7. 2.3 28 km SE of Caliente, Nevada
  8. 1.6 27 km SSE of Caliente, Nevada
  9. 1.7 29 km NNE of Moapa Town, Nevada
  10. 2.0 33 km SSW of Caliente, Nevada
  11. 1.6 43 km S of Caliente, Nevada
  12. 2.1 45 km ESE of Alamo, Nevada
  13. 1.8 24 km SSE of Caliente, Nevada
  14. 1.7 45 km ESE of Alamo, Nevada
  15. 1.8 29 km SE 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 4.2 on 2016-01-15 — it released about 6,500 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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