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M 1.5ml

9 km NW of Carson City, Nevada

· 6.8 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Carson City 11 kmStorey County 35 kmDouglas County 41 kmLyon County 59 kmAlpine County 68 kmSierra County 71 kmEl Dorado County 79 kmPlacer County 79 kmNevada County 81 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
6.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Carson City, 11 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2572 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 39.2343, -119.8286. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Carson City, NV 11 km (7 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Carson City
Storey County, NV 35 km (22 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Storey County
Douglas County, NV 41 km (26 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Lyon County, NV 59 km (37 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Alpine County, CA 68 km (42 mi) N of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Sierra County, CA 71 km (44 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

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

  1. 2.8 15km NW of Truckee, CA
  2. 2.2 3km NE of Dollar Point, CA
  3. 2.1 8km N of Truckee, CA
  4. 2.2 15km NW of Truckee, CA
  5. 2.5 16km W of Truckee, CA
  6. 2.0 18 km WNW of Yerington, Nevada
  7. 1.6 17 km WNW of Yerington, Nevada
  8. 1.9 17 km WNW of Yerington, Nevada
  9. 1.6 2 km W of Sun Valley, Nevada
  10. 1.5 2 km SE of Golden Valley, Nevada
  11. 1.6 Nevada
  12. 1.6 5 km SE of Carson City, Nevada
  13. 2.0 11km NNE of Tahoe Vista, CA
  14. 2.1 4 km NE of Indian Hills, Nevada
  15. 1.6 5 km NE of Indian Hills, 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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