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M 1.5ml

4 km SSE of Soda Springs, California

· 7.3 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Sierra County 35 kmNevada County 36 kmPlacer County 41 kmCarson City 54 kmEl Dorado County 58 kmStorey County 73 kmDouglas County 77 kmYuba County 85 kmPlumas County 88 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
7.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Sierra County, 35 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2838 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 5.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 180× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.4 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 39.2913, -120.3527. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Sierra County, CA 35 km (22 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Sierra County
Nevada County, CA 36 km (22 mi) E of here earthquakes near Nevada County
Placer County, CA 41 km (25 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Placer County
Carson City, NV 54 km (34 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Carson City
El Dorado County, CA 58 km (36 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near El Dorado County
Storey County, NV 73 km (45 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Storey 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. 2.5 16km W of Truckee, CA
  2. 2.8 25km W of Sunnyside-Tahoe City, CA
  3. 2.0 11km NNE of Tahoe Vista, CA
  4. 1.5 6 km NNW of Incline Village, Nevada
  5. 2.4 6 km SW of Cold Springs, Nevada
  6. 1.8 5 km SW of Cold Springs, Nevada
  7. 2.8 17km NNW of Truckee, CA
  8. 2.4 18km NNW of Truckee, CA
  9. 3.7 17km NNW of Truckee, CA
  10. 1.5 6 km SW of Cold Springs, Nevada
  11. 2.0 6 km SW of Cold Springs, Nevada
  12. 2.8 6km WSW of Cold Springs, NV
  13. 2.3 22km SW of Whitehawk, CA
  14. 2.7 4km N of Dollar Point, CA
  15. 1.6 3 km NNE of Truckee, 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.

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