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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

30 km SSW of Alamo, Nevada

· 0.7 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
0.7 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lincoln County, 70 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 27 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 5.7 970,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 86× 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 37.1112, -115.2982. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lincoln County, NV 70 km (43 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Clark County, NV 103 km (64 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Clark County
Nye County, NV 140 km (87 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Nye County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 21 km ESE of Alamo, Nevada
  2. 1.6 28 km SSW of Alamo, Nevada
  3. 1.6 45 km SSW of Alamo, 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 4.4 on 2026-04-29 — it released about 11,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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