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M 1.7ml

27 km N of Sutcliffe, Nevada

· 11 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Washoe County 60 kmStorey County 85 kmLassen County 100 kmSierra County 101 kmPlumas County 102 kmPershing County 109 kmCarson City 116 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 1.7 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Washoe County, 60 km N
Nearest mapped fault
Terraced Hills fault, 1 km from its surface trace — near is not the same as on
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3010 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 40.1935, -119.6567. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Washoe County, NV 60 km (37 mi) S of here earthquakes near Washoe County
Storey County, NV 85 km (53 mi) N of here earthquakes near Storey County
Lassen County, CA 100 km (62 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Lassen County
Sierra County, CA 101 km (63 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Sierra County
Plumas County, CA 102 km (63 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Plumas County
Pershing County, NV 109 km (68 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Pershing 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. 1.6 35 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  2. 1.6 35 km N of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  3. 1.7 24 km WSW of Gerlach, Nevada
  4. 1.6 27 km ENE of Herlong, California
  5. 1.9 23 km WSW of Empire, Nevada
  6. 2.0 23 km WSW of Empire, Nevada
  7. 2.5 29 km WSW of Gerlach, Nevada
  8. 2.4 26 km WSW of Gerlach, Nevada
  9. 2.4 38 km N of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  10. 1.9 39 km N of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  11. 2.8 40 km SW of Empire, Nevada
  12. 2.1 40 km ENE of Herlong, California
  13. 1.5 32 km N of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  14. 1.9 41 km N of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  15. 1.7 38 km ENE of Herlong, California

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.

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