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M 3.3ml

16 km ESE of Fernley, Nevada

· 11 km deep · released about 1.3 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Storey County 42 kmLyon County 62 kmChurchill County 69 kmCarson City 75 kmDouglas County 87 kmPershing County 112 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 3.3 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
46 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Storey County, 42 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2289 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 46 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1.3 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 130,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 5,600× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 4,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.3 about 1.3 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2.8× 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 39.5721, -119.0699. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Storey County, NV 42 km (26 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Storey County
Lyon County, NV 62 km (39 mi) N of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Churchill County, NV 69 km (43 mi) W of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Carson City, NV 75 km (46 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Carson City
Douglas County, NV 87 km (54 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Pershing County, NV 112 km (69 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Pershing County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.5 10 km NE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  2. 1.9 4 km SE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  3. 1.6 18 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  4. 1.8 14 km WNW of Wadsworth, Nevada
  5. 1.7 37 km E of Nixon, Nevada
  6. 1.8 18 km SW of Fallon Station, Nevada
  7. 2.6 30 km E of Nixon, Nevada
  8. 2.0 17 km ESE of Spanish Springs, Nevada
  9. 2.0 12 km ESE of Fernley, Nevada
  10. 1.7 20 km WSW of Wadsworth, Nevada
  11. 1.5 36 km E of Nixon, Nevada
  12. 1.5 14 km ESE of Fernley, Nevada
  13. 1.9 6 km NNW of Nixon, Nevada
  14. 1.7 10 km E of Silver Springs, Nevada
  15. 1.5 14 km SE of Sparks, 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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