M2.2 earthquake 50 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
A magnitude 2.2 earthquake struck 50 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada on Tue, Oct 24, 2023, 12:53 PM PDT (19:53 UTC), 7 km (4 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M3.5 24 km WSW of Big Pine, CA. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 2.2 (ML, local (Richter)), micro
- Magnitude from
- Nevada Seismological Laboratory
- Local time
- UTC
- 2023-10-24 19:53:02 UTC
- Depth
- 6.5 km (4.0 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 37.297° N, 117.596° W
- Region
- Nevada
- Tsunami flag
- No
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
Did you feel it?
No one has reported feeling this quake to the USGS.
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.53
- Station coverage gap
- 66°
- Stations used
- 19
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 44 in the 60 days after this one and 31 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 1.810 km NW of Round Valley, CA · 1076 days ago · 10 km deep · 98 km away
- 1.510 km NW of Round Valley, CA · 1075 days ago · 11 km deep · 98 km away
- 2.410 km NW of Round Valley, CA · 1074 days ago · 11 km deep · 98 km away
- 1.910 km NW of Round Valley, CA · 1074 days ago · 11 km deep · 98 km away
- 1.68 km WNW of Round Valley, CA · 1074 days ago · 14 km deep · 97 km away
- 2.733 km SE of Mina, Nevada · 1071 days ago · 13 km deep · 98 km away
- 1.9Nevada · 1069 days ago · 12 km deep · 100 km away
- 2.029 km SSE of Mina, Nevada · 1066 days ago · 13 km deep · 100 km away
- 1.529 km SSE of Mina, Nevada · 1066 days ago · 13 km deep · 100 km away
- 1.936 km SSE of Goldfield, Nevada · 1065 days ago · 6 km deep · 46 km away
- 2.543 km E of Big Pine, CA · 1062 days ago · 2 km deep · 23 km away
- 1.637 km SE of Mina, Nevada · 1062 days ago · 12 km deep · 100 km away
- 1.721 km E of Lone Pine, CA · 1060 days ago · 1 km deep · 85 km away
- 2.918 km E of Toms Place, CA · 1057 days ago · 11 km deep · 82 km away · felt by 2
- 3.29 km N of Big Pine, CA · 1057 days ago · 13 km deep · 60 km away · felt by 15
- 1.835 km SE of Mina, Nevada · 1055 days ago · 12 km deep · 100 km away
- 1.612 km W of Wilkerson, CA · 1053 days ago · 14 km deep · 82 km away · felt by 1
- 2.06 km NW of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA · 1051 days ago · 4 km deep · 77 km away
- 1.914 km SSE of Big Pine, California · 1050 days ago · 13 km deep · 65 km away
- 1.838 km SSE of Dyer, Nevada · 1048 days ago · 7 km deep · 27 km away
- 1.917 km S of Big Pine, CA · 1048 days ago · 12 km deep · 67 km away
- 1.534 km ENE of Independence, California · 1047 days ago · 0 km deep · 47 km away
- 1.961 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada · 1046 days ago · 10 km deep · 24 km away
- 2.3Nevada · 1041 days ago · 9 km deep · 99 km away
- 1.528 km ESE of Tonopah, Nevada · 1041 days ago · 8 km deep · 98 km away
- 1.58 km ENE of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, California · 1039 days ago · 7 km deep · 67 km away
- 1.548 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada · 1038 days ago · 0 km deep · 2 km away
- 1.5California-Nevada border region · 1037 days ago · 7 km deep · 1 km away
- 1.916 km S of Big Pine, CA · 1037 days ago · 8 km deep · 68 km away
- 1.552 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada · 1037 days ago · 8 km deep · 2 km away
- 1.951 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada · 1037 days ago · 7 km deep · 0 km away
- 2.321 km WSW of Big Pine, CA · 1036 days ago · 18 km deep · 83 km away
- 1.623 km WSW of Big Pine, CA · 1036 days ago · 12 km deep · 86 km away
- 1.824 km WSW of Big Pine, CA · 1036 days ago · 12 km deep · 86 km away
- 3.524 km WSW of Big Pine, CA · 1036 days ago · 10 km deep · 87 km away · felt by 14
- 1.625 km WSW of Big Pine, CA · 1036 days ago · 8 km deep · 87 km away
- 2.634 km SE of Mina, Nevada · 1032 days ago · 12 km deep · 99 km away
- 1.75 km NE of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA · 1029 days ago · 8 km deep · 70 km away
- 1.545 km ESE of Big Pine, California · 1027 days ago · 7 km deep · 31 km away
- 1.98 km NNE of Round Valley, CA · 1027 days ago · 13 km deep · 88 km away
- 1.729 km NNW of Deep Springs, CA · 1020 days ago · 4 km deep · 55 km away
- 2.454 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada · 1019 days ago · 9 km deep · 9 km away
- 2.52 km W of Round Valley, CA · 1018 days ago · 9 km deep · 92 km away
- 2.934 km SE of Mina, Nevada · 1018 days ago · 10 km deep · 99 km away
Before
- 2.051 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada · 1077 days ago · 7 km deep · 1 km away
- 1.52 km SSW of Round Valley, CA · 1078 days ago · 8 km deep · 90 km away
- 1.5California-Nevada border region · 1078 days ago · 15 km deep · 94 km away
- 1.530 km SSE of Mina, Nevada · 1079 days ago · 12 km deep · 99 km away
- 2.133 km SE of Mina, Nevada · 1080 days ago · 10 km deep · 100 km away
- 1.812 km N of Independence, CA · 1084 days ago · 3 km deep · 70 km away
- 1.6California-Nevada border region · 1084 days ago · 7 km deep · 34 km away
- 2.216 km SE of Lone Pine, CA · 1085 days ago · 8 km deep · 98 km away
- 2.734 km NW of Silver Peak, Nevada · 1086 days ago · 0 km deep · 80 km away
- 1.818 km E of Toms Place, CA · 1087 days ago · 10 km deep · 84 km away
- 2.738 km SE of Mina, Nevada · 1090 days ago · 10 km deep · 99 km away
- 1.97 km S of Wilkerson, CA · 1090 days ago · 12 km deep · 69 km away
- 1.937 km SE of Mina, Nevada · 1092 days ago · 11 km deep · 99 km away
- 1.632 km SE of Mina, Nevada · 1092 days ago · 8 km deep · 100 km away
- 1.64 km ENE of Round Valley, CA · 1093 days ago · 11 km deep · 87 km away
- 1.823 km NE of Olancha, CA · 1093 days ago · 5 km deep · 98 km away
- 1.84 km ENE of Round Valley, CA · 1093 days ago · 12 km deep · 87 km away
- 1.532 km SE of Mina, Nevada · 1093 days ago · 11 km deep · 98 km away
- 1.814 km WSW of Wilkerson, CA · 1093 days ago · 10 km deep · 83 km away
- 1.558 km S of Goldfield, Nevada · 1094 days ago · 13 km deep · 27 km away
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From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event nn00867834. Read Mon, Oct 5, 2026, 7:06 AM UTC.