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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.4ml

9 km NE of Schurz, Nevada

· 0.0 km deep · released about 120 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lyon County 39 kmMineral County 62 kmChurchill County 71 kmDouglas County 76 kmStorey County 82 kmCarson City 88 kmAlpine County 101 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 2.4 (ml)
Depth
0.0 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Lyon County, 39 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2550 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 120 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 130,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 89,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 7.9× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 120 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 39.0173, -118.7425. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lyon County, NV 39 km (24 mi) E of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Mineral County, NV 62 km (39 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Churchill County, NV 71 km (44 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Douglas County, NV 76 km (47 mi) E of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Storey County, NV 82 km (51 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Storey County
Carson City, NV 88 km (55 mi) E of here earthquakes near Carson City

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 22 km E of Schurz, Nevada
  2. 1.5 7 km N of Walker Lake, Nevada
  3. 1.5 20 km NNE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  4. 1.6 11 km WNW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  5. 1.5 16 km N of Walker Lake, Nevada
  6. 1.5 8 km NNW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  7. 1.6 8 km NNE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  8. 1.6 3 km W of Walker Lake, Nevada
  9. 1.7 22 km NE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  10. 1.8 24 km S of Fallon Station, Nevada
  11. 1.5 16 km E of Silver Springs, Nevada
  12. 2.8 5 km N of Schurz, Nevada
  13. 1.6 35 km ENE of Schurz, Nevada
  14. 1.6 38 km ENE of Schurz, Nevada
  15. 1.7 7 km NW of Walker Lake, 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 2016-07-07 — it released about 1,400 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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