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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5ml

4 km ENE of Indian Hills, Nevada

· 9.0 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Carson City 6 kmDouglas County 25 kmStorey County 41 kmLyon County 47 kmAlpine County 54 kmEl Dorado County 78 kmPlacer County 85 kmSierra County 86 kmNevada County 92 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
9.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Carson City, 6 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2379 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 39.1032, -119.7344. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Carson City, NV 6 km (4 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Carson City
Douglas County, NV 25 km (15 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Storey County, NV 41 km (26 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Storey County
Lyon County, NV 47 km (29 mi) W of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Alpine County, CA 54 km (33 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

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

  1. 1.9 9 km WNW of Virginia City, Nevada
  2. 1.5 10 km S of Sparks, Nevada
  3. 1.7 9 km WNW of Virginia City, Nevada
  4. 1.5 6 km NNE of Fish Springs, Nevada
  5. 2.0 3km E of Truckee, CA
  6. 3.0 9km S of Truckee, CA
  7. 1.7 8 km WNW of Carson City, Nevada
  8. 2.2 8km NE of Markleeville, CA
  9. 2.3 18km E of Markleeville, CA
  10. 2.2 15km NNW of Incline Village-Crystal Bay, NV
  11. 1.9 4 km S of Dayton, Nevada
  12. 2.3 8km NE of Markleeville, CA
  13. 1.5 7 km N of Incline Village, Nevada
  14. 2.2 4 km S of Dayton, Nevada
  15. 2.2 4 km S of Dayton, 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 2020-03-21 — 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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