QuakeIndex

Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.7ml

8 km SW of Virginia City, Nevada

· 11 km deep · released about 5.4 tons of TNT

Felt it? Tell USGS Check my area
10 km30 km60 km120 km N Carson City 12 kmStorey County 26 kmDouglas County 40 kmLyon County 52 kmAlpine County 71 kmSierra County 77 kmEl Dorado County 88 kmPlacer County 89 kmNevada County 90 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 3.7 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
1271 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Carson City, 12 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 522 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 1271 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 5.4 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 32,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.7 about 5.4 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 11× more

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 39.2579, -119.7235. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Carson City, NV 12 km (7 mi) N of here earthquakes near Carson City
Storey County, NV 26 km (16 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Storey County
Douglas County, NV 40 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 71 km (44 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

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

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

On USGS

QuakeIndex does not issue warnings. For earthquake early warning see ShakeAlert.