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M 1.7ml

3 km NNE of Spanish Springs, Nevada

· 11 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Storey County 30 kmCarson City 58 kmSierra County 72 kmLyon County 84 kmDouglas County 86 kmNevada County 102 kmPlumas County 103 kmPlacer County 112 kmAlpine County 117 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 1.7 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Storey County, 30 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2826 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 39.6747, -119.6867. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Storey County, NV 30 km (18 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Storey County
Carson City, NV 58 km (36 mi) N of here earthquakes near Carson City
Sierra County, CA 72 km (45 mi) E of here earthquakes near Sierra County
Lyon County, NV 84 km (52 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Douglas County, NV 86 km (53 mi) N of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Nevada County, CA 102 km (63 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Nevada 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. 1.8 5 km SW of Cold Springs, Nevada
  2. 1.5 6 km SW of Cold Springs, Nevada
  3. 2.0 6 km SW of Cold Springs, Nevada
  4. 1.6 10 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  5. 2.8 6km WSW of Cold Springs, NV
  6. 1.6 1 km SSE of Golden Valley, Nevada
  7. 1.5 5 km S of Floriston, California
  8. 2.7 5 km SSE of Floriston, California
  9. 1.9 Nevada
  10. 2.1 12 km NNW of Virginia City, Nevada
  11. 1.9 11 km NNW of Virginia City, Nevada
  12. 2.4 5km SE of Chilcoot-Vinton, CA
  13. 1.6 11 km SE of Fernley, Nevada
  14. 1.8 11 km E of Doyle, California
  15. 1.5 11 km NNW of Virginia City, 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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