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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.9ml

11 km N of Schurz, Nevada

· 11 km deep · released about 11 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lyon County 33 kmMineral County 68 kmDouglas County 71 kmChurchill County 72 kmStorey County 75 kmCarson City 82 kmAlpine County 98 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 3.9 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
22 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Measured shaking
intensity III (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Lyon County, 33 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3009 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 22 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 11 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 16,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 710× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 500× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.9 about 11 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 22× 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 39.0501, -118.8113. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lyon County, NV 33 km (21 mi) E of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Mineral County, NV 68 km (43 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Douglas County, NV 71 km (44 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Churchill County, NV 72 km (45 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Storey County, NV 75 km (47 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Storey County
Carson City, NV 82 km (51 mi) E of here earthquakes near Carson City

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 19 km NE of Yerington, Nevada
  2. 1.6 23 km ENE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  3. 2.0 10 km N of Schurz, Nevada
  4. 1.9 10 km N of Schurz, Nevada
  5. 1.7 10 km N of Schurz, Nevada
  6. 3.0 10 km N of Schurz, Nevada
  7. 2.7 10 km N of Schurz, Nevada
  8. 1.7 4 km W of Walker Lake, Nevada
  9. 1.5 4 km ESE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  10. 1.5 14 km NE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  11. 2.0 4 km W of Walker Lake, Nevada
  12. 1.5 3 km W of Walker Lake, Nevada
  13. 2.9 3 km W of Walker Lake, Nevada
  14. 2.0 3 km W of Walker Lake, Nevada
  15. 1.9 14 km N of Walker 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 7.9 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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