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M 1.8ml

28 km WSW of Gerlach, Nevada

· 13 km deep · released about 15 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Washoe County 16 kmLassen County 80 kmPershing County 109 kmPlumas County 117 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
13 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Washoe County, 16 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2402 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 40.5847, -119.6851. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Washoe County, NV 16 km (10 mi) S of here earthquakes near Washoe County
Lassen County, CA 80 km (50 mi) E of here earthquakes near Lassen County
Pershing County, NV 109 km (68 mi) W of here earthquakes near Pershing County
Plumas County, CA 117 km (73 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Plumas County
Sierra County, CA 133 km (82 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Sierra County
Modoc County, CA 142 km (88 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Modoc County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 30 km E of Herlong, California
  2. 1.9 30 km E of Herlong, California
  3. 1.7 30 km ENE of Herlong, California
  4. 2.7 23 km N of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  5. 1.8 30 km E of Herlong, California
  6. 1.7 23 km N of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  7. 1.7 2 km SSE of Burning Man Earth, Nevada
  8. 1.6 23 km N of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  9. 2.0 30 km WSW of Empire, Nevada
  10. 3.0 24 km N of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  11. 1.8 28 km W of Empire, Nevada
  12. 1.5 16 km ESE of Empire, Nevada
  13. 3.2 15 km ESE of Empire, Nevada
  14. 1.5 21 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  15. 3.3 22 km N of Sutcliffe, 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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