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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.2md

3km NE of Dollar Point, CA

· 6.1 km deep · released about 56 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Carson City 28 kmDouglas County 52 kmStorey County 54 kmSierra County 57 kmPlacer County 59 kmNevada County 61 kmEl Dorado County 62 kmAlpine County 69 kmLyon County 78 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 2.2 (md)
Depth
6.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Carson City, 28 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2309 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 39.2072, -120.0702. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Carson City, NV 28 km (18 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Carson City
Douglas County, NV 52 km (32 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Storey County, NV 54 km (33 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Storey County
Sierra County, CA 57 km (35 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Sierra County
Placer County, CA 59 km (36 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Placer County
Nevada County, CA 61 km (38 mi) E of here earthquakes near Nevada County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 8 km NE of Truckee, California
  2. 1.8 8 km WNW of Virginia City, Nevada
  3. 1.6 16 km NNW of Truckee, California
  4. 1.8 9 km WNW of Virginia City, Nevada
  5. 1.8 9 km WNW of Virginia City, Nevada
  6. 2.0 8 km NW of Virginia City, Nevada
  7. 1.5 12 km W of Virginia City, Nevada
  8. 2.4 9 km WNW of Virginia City, Nevada
  9. 1.5 9 km N of Kirkwood, California
  10. 1.9 4 km SSE of Dayton, Nevada
  11. 2.0 9 km WNW of Virginia City, Nevada
  12. 2.0 16km SW of Loyalton, CA
  13. 1.6 10 km NW of Truckee, California
  14. 1.9 9 km WNW of Virginia City, Nevada
  15. 1.9 10km 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.5 on 2020-03-21 — it released about 3,000 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

On USGS

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