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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

5 km WNW of Wadsworth, Nevada

· 13 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Storey County 28 kmCarson City 65 kmLyon County 71 kmDouglas County 86 kmChurchill County 94 kmSierra County 101 kmPershing County 118 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 1.6 (ml)
Depth
13 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Storey County, 28 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3068 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 39.6534, -119.3492. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Storey County, NV 28 km (18 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Storey County
Carson City, NV 65 km (41 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Carson City
Lyon County, NV 71 km (44 mi) N of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Douglas County, NV 86 km (54 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Churchill County, NV 94 km (58 mi) W of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Sierra County, CA 101 km (63 mi) E of here earthquakes near Sierra 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. 1.6 1 km SSE of Golden Valley, Nevada
  2. 1.5 13 km E of Fernley, Nevada
  3. 1.8 12 km NE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  4. 2.1 12 km NNW of Virginia City, Nevada
  5. 1.9 11 km NNW of Virginia City, Nevada
  6. 1.6 11 km SE of Fernley, Nevada
  7. 1.5 11 km NNW of Virginia City, Nevada
  8. 1.6 7 km SE of Fernley, Nevada
  9. 1.5 1 km NE of Sun Valley, Nevada
  10. 1.8 1 km NE of Sun Valley, Nevada
  11. 1.7 0 km NNE of Sun Valley, Nevada
  12. 1.6 0 km N of Sun Valley, Nevada
  13. 1.7 0 km NNE of Sun Valley, Nevada
  14. 1.5 0 km NNE of Sun Valley, Nevada
  15. 1.7 13 km SE of Sparks, 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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