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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5ml

14 km NW of Sutcliffe, Nevada

· 12 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Storey County 70 kmWashoe County 76 kmSierra County 87 kmPlumas County 95 kmCarson City 100 kmLassen County 107 kmPershing County 119 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 1.5 (ml)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Storey County, 70 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2833 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 40.0514, -119.7101. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Storey County, NV 70 km (43 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Storey County
Washoe County, NV 76 km (47 mi) S of here earthquakes near Washoe County
Sierra County, CA 87 km (54 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Sierra County
Plumas County, CA 95 km (59 mi) E of here earthquakes near Plumas County
Carson City, NV 100 km (62 mi) N of here earthquakes near Carson City
Lassen County, CA 107 km (66 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Lassen County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 4 km E of Cold Springs, Nevada
  2. 1.7 14 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  3. 1.5 11 km SW of Nixon, Nevada
  4. 2.2 11 km SW of Nixon, Nevada
  5. 1.5 8 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  6. 1.5 Nevada
  7. 1.5 13 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  8. 2.1 23 km WSW of Empire, Nevada
  9. 2.8 9 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  10. 1.8 9 km N of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  11. 1.6 8 km N of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  12. 1.7 9 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  13. 2.3 15km SE of Honey Lake, CA
  14. 1.9 9 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  15. 1.8 9 km NNW of Sutcliffe, 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.5 on 2016-08-04 — it released about 30,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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