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mining explosion · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.3ml

12 km NW of Carlin, Nevada

· 0.0 km deep · released about 1.3 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Elko County 82 kmEureka County 90 km
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
Magnitude
M 3.3 (ml)
Depth
0.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Elko County, 82 km ENE
Nearest mapped fault
Shoshone Range fault, 20 km from its surface trace — near is not the same as on
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1642 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

USGS catalogues this as mining explosion, not an earthquake.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1.3 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 130,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 5,600× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 4,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.3 about 1.3 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2.8× 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 40.7860, -116.2120. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Elko County, NV 82 km (51 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Elko County
Eureka County, NV 90 km (56 mi) N of here earthquakes near Eureka County
Lander County, NV 121 km (75 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Lander 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.

  1. 3.2 47 km NNW of Carlin, Nevada
  2. 2.8 27 km W of Carlin, Nevada
  3. 1.6 49 km NNW of Carlin, Nevada
  4. 2.4 58 km NW of Carlin, Nevada
  5. 3.8 17 km E of Crescent Valley, Nevada
  6. 2.6 17 km SE of Carlin, Nevada
  7. 2.9 18 km ESE of Crescent Valley, Nevada
  8. 1.5 28 km NNW of Carlin, Nevada
  9. 2.0 14 km E of Crescent Valley, Nevada
  10. 1.8 19 km N of Crescent Valley, Nevada
  11. 1.7 41 km NE of Battle Mountain, Nevada
  12. 1.5 35 km NW of Carlin, Nevada
  13. 1.9 39 km NW of Carlin, Nevada
  14. 1.6 7 km WNW of Elko, Nevada
  15. 1.5 14 km NNE of Carlin, 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.

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