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Earthquake · automatic estimate, may change

M 1.8ml

14 km S of Yerington, Nevada

· 25 km deep · released about 15 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lyon County 19 kmDouglas County 40 kmCarson City 61 kmAlpine County 62 kmStorey County 72 kmMineral County 74 kmChurchill County 107 kmMono County 107 kmTuolumne County 117 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.8 (ml)
Depth
25 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lyon County, 19 km NNW
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3675 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 15 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 710,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 63× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 15 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 38.8587, -119.1462. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lyon County, NV 19 km (12 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Douglas County, NV 40 km (25 mi) E of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Carson City, NV 61 km (38 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Carson City
Alpine County, CA 62 km (39 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Storey County, NV 72 km (45 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Storey County
Mineral County, NV 74 km (46 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Mineral County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 10 km N of Schurz, Nevada
  2. 2.2 5 km ESE of Walker, California
  3. 1.8 4 km NE of Topaz Ranch Estates, Nevada
  4. 3.3 3 km WNW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  5. 1.5 10 km N of Schurz, Nevada
  6. 1.6 10 km N of Schurz, Nevada
  7. 1.7 10 km N of Schurz, Nevada
  8. 3.9 11 km N of Schurz, Nevada
  9. 2.1 10 km N of Schurz, Nevada
  10. 1.5 California-Nevada border region
  11. 1.5 9 km NW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  12. 2.0 3 km W of Walker Lake, Nevada
  13. 1.7 2 km NW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  14. 2.8 2 km WNW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  15. 1.7 5 km NW of Topaz Lake, 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 4.5 on 2016-07-07 — it released about 11,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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