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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.7ml

22 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada

· 12 km deep · released about 340 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Washoe County 66 kmStorey County 79 kmSierra County 95 kmPlumas County 98 kmLassen County 102 kmCarson City 110 kmPershing County 113 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 2.7 (ml)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Washoe County, 66 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2910 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 340 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 45,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 32,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2.8× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.7 about 340 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 40.1393, -119.6848. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Washoe County, NV 66 km (41 mi) S of here earthquakes near Washoe County
Storey County, NV 79 km (49 mi) N of here earthquakes near Storey County
Sierra County, CA 95 km (59 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Sierra County
Plumas County, CA 98 km (61 mi) E of here earthquakes near Plumas County
Lassen County, CA 102 km (63 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Lassen County
Carson City, NV 110 km (68 mi) N of here earthquakes near Carson City

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 37 km WSW of Gerlach, Nevada
  2. 1.8 41 km WSW of Empire, Nevada
  3. 1.9 Nevada
  4. 1.5 32 km N of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  5. 1.8 11 km E of Doyle, California
  6. 1.5 7 km SSW of Empire, Nevada
  7. 1.5 39 km NE of Herlong, California
  8. 1.5 13 km SSE of Doyle, California
  9. 2.6 13km NE of Chilcoot-Vinton, CA
  10. 2.2 3 km N of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  11. 2.0 13 km SSE of Doyle, California
  12. 1.5 4 km ENE of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  13. 2.8 3 km ENE of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  14. 1.6 13 km SSE of Doyle, California
  15. 1.6 12 km NE of Chilcoot-Vinton, 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.5 on 2016-08-04 — it released about 470 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

On USGS

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