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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7md

4 km NNE of Dollar Point, CA

· 3.6 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Carson City 31 kmSierra County 54 kmStorey County 55 kmDouglas County 55 kmPlacer County 57 kmNevada County 59 kmEl Dorado County 62 kmAlpine County 71 kmLyon County 80 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (md)
Depth
3.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Carson City, 31 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 422 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 11 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 89× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 39.2215, -120.0945. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Carson City, NV 31 km (19 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Carson City
Sierra County, CA 54 km (34 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Sierra County
Storey County, NV 55 km (34 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Storey County
Douglas County, NV 55 km (34 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Placer County, CA 57 km (35 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Placer County
Nevada County, CA 59 km (37 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

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

  1. 3.3 9 km NNE of Truckee, CA
  2. 2.5 9 km NNE of Truckee, CA
  3. 2.5 9 km NNE of Truckee, CA
  4. 2.1 9 km NNE of Truckee, CA
  5. 1.9 32 km S of Whitehawk, CA
  6. 1.8 10 km N of Kings Beach, CA
  7. 2.2 8 km SSE of South Lake Tahoe, CA
  8. 2.4 11 km N of Kings Beach, CA
  9. 1.9 10 km N of Kings Beach, CA
  10. 2.4 10 km N of Kings Beach, CA
  11. 2.1 11 km N of Kings Beach, CA
  12. 1.7 6 km N of Carson City, Nevada
  13. 1.5 8 km SSW of Dayton, Nevada
  14. 1.8 6 km N of Carson City, Nevada
  15. 1.7 7 km N 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 27,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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