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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.1ml

76 km SSE of Lamoille, Nevada

· 1.1 km deep · released about 1,300 lb of TNT

10 km30 km60 km120 km N White Pine County 77 kmEureka County 99 kmElko County 118 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 3.1 (ml)
Depth
1.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
White Pine County, 77 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 8 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 1,300 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 250,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 11,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 7,900× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.1 about 1,300 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.4× more

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 40.0930, -115.1228. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
White Pine County, NV 77 km (48 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near White Pine County
Eureka County, NV 99 km (61 mi) E of here earthquakes near Eureka County
Elko County, NV 118 km (73 mi) S of here earthquakes near Elko County

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

Aftershocks so far

No further earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.

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.

On USGS

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