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M 1.5ml

7 km SSW of Empire, Nevada

· 0.1 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Washoe County 34 kmPershing County 83 kmLassen County 107 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
0.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Washoe County, 34 km NW
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2640 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 40.5150, -119.3847. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Washoe County, NV 34 km (21 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Washoe County
Pershing County, NV 83 km (52 mi) W of here earthquakes near Pershing County
Lassen County, CA 107 km (66 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Lassen County
Storey County, NV 120 km (75 mi) N of here earthquakes near Storey County
Sierra County, CA 142 km (88 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Sierra County
Churchill County, NV 145 km (90 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Churchill 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. 3.0 24 km N of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  2. 1.8 28 km W of Empire, Nevada
  3. 1.5 16 km ESE of Empire, Nevada
  4. 3.2 15 km ESE of Empire, Nevada
  5. 1.5 21 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  6. 3.3 22 km N of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  7. 1.6 15 km NNW of Black Rock City, Nevada
  8. 2.3 16 km NNW of Burning Man Earth, Nevada
  9. 1.8 27 km W of Empire, Nevada
  10. 2.1 25 km W of Empire, Nevada
  11. 1.6 38 km W of Empire, Nevada
  12. 2.2 30 km WSW of Empire, Nevada
  13. 2.9 11 km WNW of Burning Man Earth, Nevada
  14. 2.2 15 km W of Gerlach, Nevada
  15. 1.7 17 km WSW of Gerlach, 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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