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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.8ml

17 km SSW of Schurz, Nevada

· 11 km deep · released about 15 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lyon County 38 kmMineral County 50 kmDouglas County 66 kmAlpine County 84 kmCarson City 86 kmStorey County 91 kmChurchill County 97 kmMono County 98 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 1.8 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lyon County, 38 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2432 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 15 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 710,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 63× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 15 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 38.8015, -118.8604. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lyon County, NV 38 km (24 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Mineral County, NV 50 km (31 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Douglas County, NV 66 km (41 mi) E of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Alpine County, CA 84 km (52 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Carson City, NV 86 km (53 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Carson City
Storey County, NV 91 km (57 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Storey County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 8 km NNW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  2. 1.6 8 km NNE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  3. 1.9 4 km SSW of Smith Valley, Nevada
  4. 1.6 3 km W of Walker Lake, Nevada
  5. 1.5 16 km ENE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  6. 2.2 15 km E of Hawthorne, Nevada
  7. 1.5 28 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  8. 1.7 22 km NE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  9. 1.5 28 km SW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  10. 1.5 29 km SW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  11. 2.1 California-Nevada border region
  12. 1.8 28 km SW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  13. 2.0 29 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  14. 1.8 24 km S of Fallon Station, Nevada
  15. 2.0 28 km WSW of Hawthorne, 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 5.6 on 2016-12-28 — it released about 500,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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