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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.4mw

9km SE of Dollar Point, CA

· 7.2 km deep · released about 1.6 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Carson City 25 kmDouglas County 44 kmStorey County 56 kmEl Dorado County 58 kmAlpine County 60 kmPlacer County 60 kmSierra County 65 kmNevada County 66 kmLyon County 73 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 3.4 (mw)
Depth
7.2 km below the surface
Felt
281 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Carson City, 25 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1891 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 281 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1.6 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 110,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 4,700× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 3,300× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.4 about 1.6 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 3.3× more

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 39.1270, -120.0317. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Carson City, NV 25 km (15 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 56 km (35 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Storey County
El Dorado County, CA 58 km (36 mi) NE of here earthquakes near El Dorado County
Alpine County, CA 60 km (37 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Placer County, CA 60 km (37 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

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

  1. 1.6 6 km ENE of Floriston, California
  2. 1.6 4 km N of Carter Springs, Nevada
  3. 1.6 5 km SW of Dayton, Nevada
  4. 2.1 6km N of Tahoe Vista, CA
  5. 2.1 7 km ENE of Floriston, California
  6. 1.5 7 km W of Mesa Vista, California
  7. 1.5 7 km ENE of Floriston, California
  8. 1.9 4 km N of Carter Springs, Nevada
  9. 1.9 4 km N of Carter Springs, Nevada
  10. 1.8 5 km SSW of Dayton, Nevada
  11. 1.9 4 km S of Virginia City, Nevada
  12. 1.9 4 km SSE of Floriston, California
  13. 1.5 3 km SSE of Floriston, California
  14. 1.5 10 km ESE of Carson City, Nevada
  15. 3.3 9 km ESE of Carson City, Nevada

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 4.7 on 2021-05-07 — it released about 89 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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