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M 1.5ml

12 km NW of Virginia City, Nevada

· 6.8 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Storey County 20 kmCarson City 26 kmDouglas County 55 kmLyon County 63 kmSierra County 69 kmAlpine County 85 kmNevada County 88 kmPlacer County 91 kmEl Dorado County 95 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
6.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Storey County, 20 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3179 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 5.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 180× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.4 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 39.3843, -119.7526. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Storey County, NV 20 km (13 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Storey County
Carson City, NV 26 km (16 mi) N of here earthquakes near Carson City
Douglas County, NV 55 km (34 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Lyon County, NV 63 km (39 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Sierra County, CA 69 km (43 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Sierra County
Alpine County, CA 85 km (53 mi) N of here earthquakes near Alpine 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. 3.8 5km W of Tahoe Vista, CA
  2. 2.0 7 km N of Incline Village, Nevada
  3. 2.4 4km W of Tahoe Vista, CA
  4. 1.6 7 km SSE of Mogul, Nevada
  5. 2.5 1 km WNW of Carnelian Bay, California
  6. 1.5 1 km WNW of Carnelian Bay, California
  7. 1.6 13 km SE of Sparks, Nevada
  8. 3.5 5km NNW of Dollar Point, CA
  9. 2.7 17km NNW of Truckee, CA
  10. 1.6 1 km NW of Carnelian Bay, California
  11. 2.6 4km E of Truckee, CA
  12. 1.9 6km WSW of Cold Springs, NV
  13. 1.8 6km WSW of Cold Springs, NV
  14. 1.5 6 km WSW of Cold Springs, Nevada
  15. 2.2 4 km ENE of Floriston, 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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