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M 3.0ml

9km S of Truckee, CA

· -2.3 km deep · released about 950 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Carson City 38 kmSierra County 47 kmNevada County 52 kmPlacer County 52 kmStorey County 60 kmEl Dorado County 60 kmDouglas County 62 kmAlpine County 77 kmLyon County 88 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 3.0 (ml)
Depth
-2.3 km below the surface
Felt
63 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Carson City, 38 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1906 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 63 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 950 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 16,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 11,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 950 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 39.2513, -120.1753. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Carson City, NV 38 km (24 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Carson City
Sierra County, CA 47 km (29 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Sierra County
Nevada County, CA 52 km (32 mi) E of here earthquakes near Nevada County
Placer County, CA 52 km (32 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Placer County
Storey County, NV 60 km (37 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Storey County
El Dorado County, CA 60 km (38 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near El Dorado County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 16km SW of Loyalton, CA
  2. 1.6 8 km SE of Dollar Point, California
  3. 2.1 9km SE of Dollar Point, CA
  4. 2.3 11km N of Truckee, CA
  5. 1.6 8 km SE of Dollar Point, California
  6. 2.4 10km SE of Dollar Point, CA
  7. 1.5 8 km WNW of Glenbrook, Nevada
  8. 2.4 9km SE of Dollar Point, CA
  9. 2.4 9km SE of Dollar Point, CA
  10. 2.4 9km SE of Dollar Point, CA
  11. 2.4 9km SE of Dollar Point, CA
  12. 2.1 9km SE of Dollar Point, CA
  13. 3.2 9km SE of Dollar Point, CA
  14. 2.1 10km SE of Dollar Point, CA
  15. 2.4 9km SE of Dollar Point, 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 180 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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