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M 1.8ml

54 km E of Fallon Station, Nevada

· 6.9 km deep · released about 15 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Churchill County 24 kmMineral County 99 kmLyon County 103 kmLander County 107 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.8 (ml)
Depth
6.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Churchill County, 24 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2398 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 39.3713, -118.0915. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Churchill County, NV 24 km (15 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Mineral County, NV 99 km (62 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Lyon County, NV 103 km (64 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Lander County, NV 107 km (67 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Lander County
Pershing County, NV 122 km (76 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Pershing County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 29 km NW of Gabbs, Nevada
  2. 1.9 34 km NNW of Gabbs, Nevada
  3. 1.7 53 km E of Fallon Station, Nevada
  4. 1.7 58 km WNW of Austin, Nevada
  5. 2.0 46 km W of Kingston, Nevada
  6. 1.6 Nevada
  7. 1.5 41 km E of Fallon Station, Nevada
  8. 1.5 30 km NW of Gabbs, Nevada
  9. 1.7 38 km E of Schurz, Nevada
  10. 1.6 California-Nevada border region
  11. 2.6 23 km WNW of Gabbs, Nevada
  12. 2.2 23 km WNW of Gabbs, Nevada
  13. 1.6 23 km WNW of Gabbs, Nevada
  14. 2.7 22 km WNW of Gabbs, Nevada
  15. 1.6 34 km ENE of Schurz, 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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