3 km WSW of Boulder City, Nevada

2026-02-20 20:30 UTC · 10 km deep · released about 13 lb of TNT

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: 2026-02-20 20:30 UTC
Magnitude: M 1.8 (ml)
Depth: 10 km below the surface
Felt: no reports yet
Nearest: Clark County, 31 km NNW
Status: Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS 219 days ago · we first saw it 219 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 13 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,200,000× the energy of this one
Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 840,000× the energy of this one
Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 75× the energy of this one
This earthquake M 1.8 about 13 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

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Epicentre 35.9644, -114.8631. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

Place	Distance	Direction
Clark County, NV	31 km (19 mi)	SSE of here	earthquakes near Clark County
Mohave County, AZ	104 km (65 mi)	WNW of here	earthquakes near Mohave County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

2.4 10 km SSE of Enterprise, Nevada 20:11 UTC
1.5 4 km N of Blue Diamond, Nevada 18:12 UTC
1.9 6 km N of Boulder City, Nevada 21:24 UTC
2.0 9 km SE of Enterprise, Nevada 20:22 UTC
1.7 14 km S of Enterprise, Nevada 18:59 UTC
1.5 1 km NNE of Whitney, Nevada 15:32 UTC
1.6 8 km S of Henderson, Nevada 18:27 UTC
1.8 17 km ENE of Boulder City, Nevada 21:45 UTC
1.9 10 km NNE of Summerlin South, Nevada 22:43 UTC
1.6 8 km N of Boulder City, Nevada 22:06 UTC
1.9 12 km NNW of Nelson, Nevada 20:38 UTC
1.7 3 km W of Las Vegas, Nevada 22:05 UTC
2.1 9 km SE of Enterprise, Nevada 21:51 UTC
1.8 2 km ESE of Spring Valley, Nevada 21:04 UTC
1.8 18 km NE of Henderson, Nevada 16:05 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 13:04 UTC. QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

On USGS

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