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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0ml

17 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada

· 14 km deep · released about 30 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Washoe County 71 kmStorey County 74 kmSierra County 92 kmPlumas County 98 kmCarson City 105 kmLassen County 105 kmPershing County 115 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 2.0 (ml)
Depth
14 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Washoe County, 71 km N
Nearest mapped fault
Terraced Hills fault, 12 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 1513 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 30 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 32× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 30 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 40.0949, -119.6834. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Washoe County, NV 71 km (44 mi) S of here earthquakes near Washoe County
Storey County, NV 74 km (46 mi) N of here earthquakes near Storey County
Sierra County, CA 92 km (57 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Sierra County
Plumas County, CA 98 km (61 mi) E of here earthquakes near Plumas County
Carson City, NV 105 km (65 mi) N of here earthquakes near Carson City
Lassen County, CA 105 km (65 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Lassen County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 6km NNE of Chilcoot-Vinton, CA
  2. 2.4 15km NE of Chilcoot-Vinton, CA
  3. 1.5 4 km W of Patton Village, California
  4. 1.6 21 km S of Empire, Nevada
  5. 1.7 38 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  6. 1.9 32 km ENE of Herlong, California
  7. 1.7 4 km NW of Doyle, California
  8. 1.7 3 km NNE of Spanish Springs, Nevada
  9. 1.5 14 km NW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  10. 2.3 27km SE of Honey Lake, CA
  11. 2.5 26 km W of Empire, Nevada
  12. 2.3 40 km N of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  13. 1.7 24 km W of Empire, Nevada
  14. 1.6 35 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  15. 1.6 35 km N of Sutcliffe, 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 2016-08-04 — it released about 5,200 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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