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M 2.0ml

13 km NW of Virginia City, Nevada

· 3.9 km deep · released about 30 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Storey County 22 kmCarson City 26 kmDouglas County 56 kmLyon County 64 kmSierra County 67 kmAlpine County 85 kmNevada County 86 kmPlacer County 89 kmEl Dorado County 94 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (ml)
Depth
3.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Storey County, 22 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2912 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 30 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 32× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 30 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 39.3893, -119.7748. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Storey County, NV 22 km (14 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 56 km (35 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Lyon County, NV 64 km (40 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Sierra County, CA 67 km (42 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

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

  1. 1.5 9 km NNW of Truckee, California
  2. 1.5 16 km SE of Sierraville, California
  3. 1.5 9 km NW of Carson City, Nevada
  4. 1.5 5 km NW of Carnelian Bay, California
  5. 2.5 8km WNW of Tahoe Vista, CA
  6. 2.1 5 km NW of Carnelian Bay, California
  7. 1.5 7 km E of Carson City, Nevada
  8. 1.5 11 km NNW of Virginia City, Nevada
  9. 1.6 1 km SW of Glenbrook, Nevada
  10. 1.7 5 km S of Floriston, California
  11. 1.5 1 km NE of Sun Valley, Nevada
  12. 1.8 1 km NE of Sun Valley, Nevada
  13. 1.7 0 km NNE of Sun Valley, Nevada
  14. 1.6 0 km N of Sun Valley, Nevada
  15. 1.7 0 km NNE of Sun Valley, 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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