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M 1.7ml

7 km WSW of Topaz Lake, Nevada

· 6.3 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Alpine County 16 kmDouglas County 25 kmLyon County 53 kmCarson City 54 kmTuolumne County 79 kmEl Dorado County 80 kmStorey County 85 kmAmador County 93 kmCalaveras County 98 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
6.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Alpine County, 16 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3009 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 38.6797, -119.6241. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Alpine County, CA 16 km (10 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Douglas County, NV 25 km (16 mi) S of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Lyon County, NV 53 km (33 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Carson City, NV 54 km (33 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Carson City
Tuolumne County, CA 79 km (49 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Tuolumne County
El Dorado County, CA 80 km (50 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

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

  1. 2.3 5 km ENE of Indian Hills, Nevada
  2. 2.1 6 km SE of Carson City, Nevada
  3. 2.3 8km SSE of Markleeville, CA
  4. 1.6 5 km ENE of Indian Hills, Nevada
  5. 3.2 5 km ENE of Indian Hills, Nevada
  6. 1.7 6 km NE of Indian Hills, Nevada
  7. 3.6 5 km ENE of Indian Hills, Nevada
  8. 1.6 29 km WSW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  9. 1.8 5 km NE of Indian Hills, Nevada
  10. 1.6 5 km SE of Carson City, Nevada
  11. 3.2 5 km NE of Indian Hills, Nevada
  12. 1.5 6 km NE of Indian Hills, Nevada
  13. 1.6 7 km SSE of Topaz Ranch Estates, Nevada
  14. 1.5 3 km SW of Topaz Lake, Nevada
  15. 2.1 0 km WNW of Skyland, 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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