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M 2.2ml

14 km NW of Beaverdam, Nevada

· 16 km deep · released about 52 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.2 (ml)
Depth
16 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lincoln County, 30 km WSW
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 217 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 52 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 290,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 200,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 18× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.2 about 52 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 37.7696, -114.5620. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lincoln County, NV 30 km (19 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Washington County, UT 110 km (69 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Washington County
Iron County, UT 111 km (69 mi) W of here earthquakes near Iron County
Beaver County, UT 133 km (83 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Beaver 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. 1.8 27 km E of Alamo, Nevada
  2. 1.9 27 km SE of Caliente, Nevada
  3. 1.9 32 km NNW of Pioche, Nevada
  4. 1.8 15 km ENE of Hiko, Nevada
  5. 2.3 28 km SE of Caliente, Nevada
  6. 1.6 27 km SSE of Caliente, Nevada
  7. 2.0 33 km SSW of Caliente, Nevada
  8. 1.8 24 km SSE of Caliente, Nevada
  9. 1.8 29 km SE of Caliente, Nevada
  10. 1.7 24 km WSW of Pioche, Nevada
  11. 1.6 34 km SW of Caliente, Nevada
  12. 2.2 19 km SSW of Caliente, Nevada
  13. 1.6 24 km S of Caliente, Nevada
  14. 1.8 13 km SSW 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 2019-06-30 — it released about 1,100 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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