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M 1.9ml

7 km SW of Virginia City, Nevada

· 9.9 km deep · released about 21 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Carson City 13 kmStorey County 26 kmDouglas County 41 kmLyon County 52 kmAlpine County 72 kmSierra County 77 kmEl Dorado County 88 kmPlacer County 89 kmNevada County 91 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.9 (ml)
Depth
9.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Carson City, 13 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2634 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 21 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 710,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 500,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 45× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 21 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 39.2643, -119.7180. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Carson City, NV 13 km (8 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Carson City
Storey County, NV 26 km (16 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Storey County
Douglas County, NV 41 km (25 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Lyon County, NV 52 km (33 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Alpine County, CA 72 km (45 mi) N of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Sierra County, CA 77 km (48 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Sierra County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 5 km ENE of Indian Hills, Nevada
  2. 2.1 5 km NE of Indian Hills, Nevada
  3. 1.5 4 km ENE of Indian Hills, Nevada
  4. 3.2 4 km NE of Indian Hills, Nevada
  5. 2.0 6 km ENE of Indian Hills, Nevada
  6. 1.5 5 km SSE of Carson City, Nevada
  7. 1.5 6 km SE of Carson City, Nevada
  8. 1.6 4 km NE of Indian Hills, Nevada
  9. 4.5 5 km NE of Indian Hills, Nevada
  10. 1.6 5 km ENE of Lemmon Valley, Nevada
  11. 1.5 5 km NNW of Fish Springs, Nevada
  12. 1.6 1 km SSE of Golden Valley, Nevada
  13. 2.7 4km N of Dollar Point, CA
  14. 1.6 3 km NNE of Truckee, California
  15. 2.2 3 km NE of Mesa Vista, 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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