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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.5md

9km SE of Dollar Point, CA

· 3.2 km deep · released about 190 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Carson City 23 kmDouglas County 44 kmStorey County 54 kmEl Dorado County 60 kmAlpine County 61 kmPlacer County 62 kmSierra County 65 kmNevada County 67 kmLyon County 72 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 2.5 (md)
Depth
3.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Carson City, 23 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2490 days ago

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

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 190 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 78,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 55,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4.9× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.5 about 190 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 39.1420, -120.0173. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Carson City, NV 23 km (14 mi) W of here earthquakes near Carson City
Douglas County, NV 44 km (27 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Storey County, NV 54 km (33 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Storey County
El Dorado County, CA 60 km (37 mi) NE of here earthquakes near El Dorado County
Alpine County, CA 61 km (38 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Placer County, CA 62 km (38 mi) E of here earthquakes near Placer County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 Northern California
  2. 1.9 4 km S of Dayton, Nevada
  3. 1.5 7 km N of Incline Village, Nevada
  4. 2.2 4 km S of Dayton, Nevada
  5. 2.2 4 km S of Dayton, Nevada
  6. 2.7 4 km S of Dayton, Nevada
  7. 1.6 4 km S of Dayton, Nevada
  8. 1.5 13 km SE of Sparks, Nevada
  9. 2.0 10 km SSW of Kingvale, California
  10. 1.8 8 km E of Floriston, California
  11. 2.1 8 km E of Floriston, California
  12. 1.7 8 km E of Floriston, California
  13. 1.8 8 km E of Floriston, California
  14. 2.5 20km NW of Truckee, CA
  15. 2.6 15km NW of Truckee, CA

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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