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M 1.6ml

10 km NNW of Nixon, Nevada

· 8.6 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Storey County 54 kmCarson City 90 kmWashoe County 93 kmLyon County 101 kmSierra County 102 kmPershing County 103 kmChurchill County 107 kmDouglas County 114 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
8.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Storey County, 54 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3089 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 7.6 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.6 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 39.9164, -119.4126. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Storey County, NV 54 km (34 mi) N of here earthquakes near Storey County
Carson City, NV 90 km (56 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Carson City
Washoe County, NV 93 km (58 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Washoe County
Lyon County, NV 101 km (63 mi) N of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Sierra County, CA 102 km (63 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Sierra County
Pershing County, NV 103 km (64 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Pershing County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 0 km NNE of Sun Valley, Nevada
  2. 1.5 0 km NNE of Sun Valley, Nevada
  3. 2.2 3 km N of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  4. 1.5 4 km ENE of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  5. 2.8 3 km ENE of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  6. 1.8 14 km E of Fernley, Nevada
  7. 1.5 13 km E of Fernley, Nevada
  8. 1.7 11 km E of Fernley, Nevada
  9. 2.1 12 km E of Fernley, Nevada
  10. 1.7 38 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  11. 1.5 8 km W of Wadsworth, Nevada
  12. 1.7 3 km NNE of Spanish Springs, Nevada
  13. 1.5 14 km NW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  14. 2.3 40 km N of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  15. 2.2 10 km NNE of Silver Springs, 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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