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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.9ml

17 km WNW of Yerington, Nevada

· 8.1 km deep · released about 21 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lyon County 14 kmDouglas County 26 kmCarson City 36 kmStorey County 48 kmAlpine County 59 kmMineral County 100 kmEl Dorado County 105 kmChurchill County 110 kmSierra County 117 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.9 (ml)
Depth
8.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lyon County, 14 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2335 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 21 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 710,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 500,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 45× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 21 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 39.0315, -119.3566. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lyon County, NV 14 km (9 mi) W of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Douglas County, NV 26 km (16 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Carson City, NV 36 km (23 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Carson City
Storey County, NV 48 km (30 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Storey County
Alpine County, CA 59 km (37 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Mineral County, NV 100 km (62 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Mineral County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 13km ESE of Markleeville, CA
  2. 2.0 9 km ENE of Coleville, California
  3. 1.5 8 km ENE of Coleville, California
  4. 1.8 7 km SW of Dayton, Nevada
  5. 1.8 11 km SSW of Schurz, Nevada
  6. 1.7 10 km E of Silver Springs, Nevada
  7. 1.8 8 km NW of Virginia City, Nevada
  8. 1.9 12 km SE of Topaz Ranch Estates, Nevada
  9. 1.8 8 km WNW of Virginia City, Nevada
  10. 1.8 9 km WNW of Virginia City, Nevada
  11. 1.8 9 km WNW of Virginia City, Nevada
  12. 2.0 8 km NW of Virginia City, Nevada
  13. 1.5 12 km W of Virginia City, Nevada
  14. 2.4 9 km WNW of Virginia City, Nevada
  15. 1.9 4 km SSE 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 7,900 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

On USGS

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