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M 1.6ml

43 km S of Caliente, Nevada

· 12 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lincoln County 51 kmWashington County 97 kmClark County 119 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lincoln County, 51 km NNW
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 113 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 7.6 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.6 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 37.2298, -114.5851. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lincoln County, NV 51 km (32 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Washington County, UT 97 km (60 mi) W of here earthquakes near Washington County
Clark County, NV 119 km (74 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Clark County
Iron County, UT 136 km (84 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Iron County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 21 km ESE of Alamo, Nevada
  2. 1.5 31 km ESE of Alamo, Nevada
  3. 1.8 27 km E of Alamo, Nevada
  4. 2.6 44 km NNW of Moapa Town, Nevada
  5. 1.9 27 km SE of Caliente, Nevada
  6. 2.7 40 km SE of Alamo, Nevada
  7. 1.7 45 km ESE of Alamo, Nevada
  8. 2.3 28 km SE of Caliente, Nevada
  9. 1.7 21 km E of Alamo, Nevada
  10. 1.6 27 km SSE of Caliente, Nevada
  11. 1.7 29 km NNE of Moapa Town, Nevada
  12. 2.0 33 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 4.0 on 2025-06-06 — it released about 4,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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