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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.9ml

6 km E of Smith, Nevada

· 11 km deep · released about 21 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lyon County 25 kmDouglas County 33 kmAlpine County 51 kmCarson City 58 kmStorey County 75 kmMineral County 80 kmMono County 104 kmTuolumne County 106 kmEl Dorado County 111 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 1.9 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lyon County, 25 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2575 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 38.8000, -119.2577. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lyon County, NV 25 km (16 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Douglas County, NV 33 km (20 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Alpine County, CA 51 km (32 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Carson City, NV 58 km (36 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Carson City
Storey County, NV 75 km (46 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Storey County
Mineral County, NV 80 km (49 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Mineral County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 10 km NW of Schurz, Nevada
  2. 1.5 5 km NNW of Fish Springs, Nevada
  3. 1.8 3 km ENE of Markleeville, California
  4. 1.8 6 km NW of Topaz Ranch Estates, Nevada
  5. 1.5 2 km WNW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  6. 2.2 3 km NE of Mesa Vista, California
  7. 1.6 16 km SSW of Schurz, Nevada
  8. 1.8 17 km SSW of Schurz, Nevada
  9. 1.9 17 km SSW of Schurz, Nevada
  10. 1.6 6 km SE of Walker, California
  11. 1.6 4 km SE of Walker, California
  12. 1.9 6 km SE of Walker, California
  13. 1.8 6 km ESE of Walker, California
  14. 1.9 9 km NNE of Schurz, Nevada
  15. 1.5 9 km ESE of Markleeville, 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.5 on 2016-07-07 — it released about 7,900 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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