The location is 36.845 N, 116.263 W, with a depth of approximately 10 km (6 mi). This location is rougly 45 km (28 mi) east of Beatty, Nevada. Personnel on the Nevada Test Site felt the earthquake, but no damage was reported. Numerous aftershocks have been recorded by the SGBDSN network.
A preliminary focal mechanism for this earthquake shows that it is a normal-faulting event on a fault plane striking slightly east of north.
The data reported here are preliminary. For more information, contact the Seismological Laboratory at (702) 784-4975, or at the WWW site http://www.seismo.unr.edu . The free pamphlet Earthquakes in Nevada and How to Survive Them, is available on request.