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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5ml

6 km NNW of Incline Village, Nevada

· 7.4 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Carson City 28 kmStorey County 45 kmSierra County 53 kmDouglas County 56 kmNevada County 65 kmPlacer County 67 kmEl Dorado County 73 kmLyon County 77 kmAlpine County 78 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
7.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Carson City, 28 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2370 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 39.3004, -120.0125. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Carson City, NV 28 km (17 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Carson City
Storey County, NV 45 km (28 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Storey County
Sierra County, CA 53 km (33 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Sierra County
Douglas County, NV 56 km (35 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Nevada County, CA 65 km (41 mi) E of here earthquakes near Nevada County
Placer County, CA 67 km (41 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Placer 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. 1.5 10 km S of Sparks, Nevada
  2. 1.7 9 km WNW of Virginia City, Nevada
  3. 1.5 6 km NNE of Fish Springs, Nevada
  4. 2.6 8km N of Truckee, CA
  5. 2.0 3km E of Truckee, CA
  6. 1.9 3 km N of Reno, Nevada
  7. 1.8 3 km N of Reno, Nevada
  8. 1.6 6 km NNW of Verdi, California
  9. 2.7 11km NW of Verdi-Mogul, NV
  10. 1.6 7 km NNW of Verdi, California
  11. 1.5 7 km NNW of Verdi, California
  12. 1.5 7 km NNW of Verdi, California
  13. 3.0 9km S of Truckee, CA
  14. 1.7 8 km WNW of Carson City, Nevada
  15. 1.5 5 km SSW of Sattley, California

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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