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M 1.7ml

11 km SSW of Kingvale, California

· 6.1 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Nevada County 27 kmPlacer County 28 kmSierra County 40 kmEl Dorado County 49 kmCarson City 63 kmYuba County 76 kmDouglas County 82 kmStorey County 85 kmAmador County 88 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
6.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Nevada County, 27 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2879 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 11 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 89× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 39.2198, -120.4696. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Nevada County, CA 27 km (17 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Nevada County
Placer County, CA 28 km (17 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Placer County
Sierra County, CA 40 km (25 mi) S of here earthquakes near Sierra County
El Dorado County, CA 49 km (30 mi) N of here earthquakes near El Dorado County
Carson City, NV 63 km (39 mi) W of here earthquakes near Carson City
Yuba County, CA 76 km (47 mi) E of here earthquakes near Yuba County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 8km N of Truckee, CA
  2. 1.8 15km NW of Truckee, CA
  3. 2.8 15km NW of Truckee, CA
  4. 1.8 18 km E of Foresthill, California
  5. 2.2 3km NE of Dollar Point, CA
  6. 2.1 8km N of Truckee, CA
  7. 2.2 15km NW of Truckee, CA
  8. 2.5 16km W of Truckee, CA
  9. 2.8 25km W of Sunnyside-Tahoe City, CA
  10. 2.0 11km NNE of Tahoe Vista, CA
  11. 1.5 6 km NNW of Incline Village, Nevada
  12. 2.8 17km NNW of Truckee, CA
  13. 2.4 18km NNW of Truckee, CA
  14. 3.7 17km NNW of Truckee, CA
  15. 2.3 22km SW of Whitehawk, CA

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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