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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5ml

Nevada

· 0.4 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lyon County 25 kmDouglas County 62 kmStorey County 70 kmMineral County 71 kmCarson City 74 kmChurchill County 79 kmAlpine 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 1.5 (ml)
Depth
0.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lyon County, 25 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2565 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 39.0292, -118.9073. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lyon County, NV 25 km (16 mi) E of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Douglas County, NV 62 km (39 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Storey County, NV 70 km (43 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Storey County
Mineral County, NV 71 km (44 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Carson City, NV 74 km (46 mi) E of here earthquakes near Carson City
Churchill County, NV 79 km (49 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Churchill County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 11 km SSW of Schurz, Nevada
  2. 1.5 20 km ENE of Schurz, Nevada
  3. 1.7 17 km SE of Schurz, Nevada
  4. 1.7 10 km E of Silver Springs, Nevada
  5. 1.5 12 km NNW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  6. 1.6 30 km SE of Fallon Station, Nevada
  7. 1.5 22 km E of Schurz, Nevada
  8. 1.5 7 km N of Walker Lake, Nevada
  9. 1.5 20 km NNE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  10. 1.6 11 km WNW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  11. 1.5 16 km N of Walker Lake, Nevada
  12. 1.5 8 km NNW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  13. 1.6 3 km W of Walker Lake, Nevada
  14. 1.6 4 km SE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  15. 1.5 4 km SE of Silver Springs, 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 32,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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