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M 1.8ml

3 km NNE of Reno, Nevada

· 7.2 km deep · released about 15 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Storey County 27 kmCarson City 45 kmSierra County 62 kmDouglas County 74 kmLyon County 79 kmNevada County 88 kmPlacer County 97 kmPlumas County 100 kmAlpine County 104 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.8 (ml)
Depth
7.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Storey County, 27 km ESE
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 15 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 710,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 63× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 15 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 39.5552, -119.7991. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Storey County, NV 27 km (17 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Storey County
Carson City, NV 45 km (28 mi) N of here earthquakes near Carson City
Sierra County, CA 62 km (39 mi) E of here earthquakes near Sierra County
Douglas County, NV 74 km (46 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Lyon County, NV 79 km (49 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Nevada County, CA 88 km (55 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Nevada County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 11 km NW of Wadsworth, Nevada
  2. 1.6 13 km SE of Sparks, Nevada
  3. 2.0 8 km N of Incline Village, Nevada
  4. 1.7 Nevada
  5. 2.0 13 km ESE of Sparks, Nevada
  6. 1.6 5 km WNW of Wadsworth, Nevada
  7. 1.7 6 km WNW of Wadsworth, Nevada
  8. 1.9 6 km WNW of Wadsworth, Nevada
  9. 2.0 9km NNW of Loyalton, CA
  10. 1.7 10 km NNE of Incline Village, Nevada
  11. 1.7 18km NNE of Chilcoot-Vinton, CA
  12. 2.6 8 km SE of Floriston, California
  13. 2.1 12 km E of Chilcoot-Vinton, California
  14. 1.8 12 km SE of Sparks, Nevada
  15. 2.5 17km NNE of Chilcoot-Vinton, CA

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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