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M 4.5ml

5 km NE of Indian Hills, Nevada

· 8.4 km deep · released about 85 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Carson City 5 kmDouglas County 25 kmStorey County 41 kmLyon County 48 kmAlpine County 55 kmEl Dorado County 78 kmSierra County 85 kmPlacer County 85 kmNevada County 92 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 4.5 (ml)
Depth
8.4 km below the surface
Felt
4857 reports · strongest reported intensity V
Measured shaking
intensity VI (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
green
Nearest
Carson City, 5 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 656 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon. 4857 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 85 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 2,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 89× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 63× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.5 about 85 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 180× more

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 39.1112, -119.7361. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Carson City, NV 5 km (3 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Carson City
Douglas County, NV 25 km (16 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Storey County, NV 41 km (25 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Storey County
Lyon County, NV 48 km (30 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Alpine County, CA 55 km (34 mi) N of here earthquakes near Alpine County
El Dorado County, CA 78 km (48 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near El Dorado County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 3km E of Truckee, CA
  2. 3.0 9km S of Truckee, CA
  3. 1.7 8 km WNW of Carson City, Nevada
  4. 2.2 8km NE of Markleeville, CA
  5. 2.2 15km NNW of Incline Village-Crystal Bay, NV
  6. 1.5 Northern California
  7. 1.9 4 km S of Dayton, Nevada
  8. 2.3 8km NE of Markleeville, CA
  9. 1.5 7 km N of Incline Village, Nevada
  10. 2.2 4 km S of Dayton, Nevada
  11. 2.2 4 km S of Dayton, Nevada
  12. 2.7 4 km S of Dayton, Nevada
  13. 1.6 4 km S of Dayton, Nevada
  14. 1.5 13 km SE of Sparks, Nevada
  15. 2.4 18km E of Markleeville, CA

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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