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M 2.2ml

34 km WNW of Denio, Nevada

· 7.7 km deep · released about 56 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.2 (ml)
Depth
7.7 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Humboldt County, 107 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 560 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 56 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 5.8 270,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 190,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 17× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.2 about 56 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 42.0972, -119.0197. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Humboldt County, NV 107 km (66 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Humboldt County
Harney County, OR 108 km (67 mi) S of here earthquakes near Harney County
Lake County, OR 136 km (85 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Lake County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 47 km ESE of Plush, Oregon
  2. 2.1 54 km ENE of Fort Bidwell, California
  3. 2.1 52 km E of Fort Bidwell, California
  4. 2.7 51 km E of Fort Bidwell, California
  5. 2.4 26 km S of Denio, Nevada
  6. 2.0 48 km E of Fort Bidwell, California
  7. 2.6 49 km E of Fort Bidwell, California
  8. 2.1 49 km E of Fort Bidwell, California
  9. 1.8 36 km NNE of Denio, Nevada
  10. 1.7 50 km E of Fort Bidwell, California
  11. 1.8 48 km E of Fort Bidwell, California
  12. 1.8 49 km E of Fort Bidwell, California
  13. 1.8 53 km SE of Plush, Oregon
  14. 1.6 48 km SE of Plush, Oregon
  15. 1.9 49 km SE of Plush, Oregon

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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