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M 3.7ml

8 km S of Carter Springs, Nevada

· 10 km deep · released about 5.4 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Douglas County 14 kmAlpine County 23 kmCarson City 42 kmLyon County 46 kmStorey County 73 kmEl Dorado County 78 kmTuolumne County 90 kmAmador County 96 kmPlacer County 99 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 3.7 (ml)
Depth
10 km below the surface
Felt
31 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Measured shaking
intensity III (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Douglas County, 14 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1564 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 31 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 5.4 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 32,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.7 about 5.4 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 11× 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 38.7848, -119.6332. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Douglas County, NV 14 km (8 mi) S of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Alpine County, CA 23 km (14 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Carson City, NV 42 km (26 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Carson City
Lyon County, NV 46 km (29 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Storey County, NV 73 km (46 mi) S of here earthquakes near Storey County
El Dorado County, CA 78 km (49 mi) E of here earthquakes near El Dorado County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.8 16km E of Markleeville, CA
  2. 2.5 7km SSW of Markleeville, CA
  3. 1.6 1 km SW of Walker, California
  4. 1.6 6 km SE of Carter Springs, Nevada
  5. 1.8 3 km NW of Topaz, California
  6. 1.7 10 km SE of Markleeville, California
  7. 1.8 11 km SE of Markleeville, California
  8. 2.3 11km SE of Markleeville, CA
  9. 1.5 5 km WSW of Topaz Lake, Nevada
  10. 1.8 18 km S of Markleeville, California
  11. 1.6 7 km SSE of Markleeville, California
  12. 3.1 6 km W of Coleville, California
  13. 2.3 7 km SSE of Markleeville, California
  14. 1.5 5 km SE of Topaz Ranch Estates, Nevada
  15. 1.7 7 km WSW 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.

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