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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0ml

28 km ESE of Schurz, Nevada

· 8.4 km deep · released about 30 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mineral County 38 kmLyon County 63 kmChurchill County 79 kmDouglas County 96 kmMono County 109 kmStorey County 109 kmCarson City 112 kmAlpine County 115 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 2.0 (ml)
Depth
8.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mineral County, 38 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2182 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 30 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 32× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 30 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 38.8520, -118.5056. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mineral County, NV 38 km (24 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Lyon County, NV 63 km (39 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Churchill County, NV 79 km (49 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Douglas County, NV 96 km (59 mi) E of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Mono County, CA 109 km (68 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Storey County, NV 109 km (68 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Storey County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 11 km NE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  2. 1.8 19 km NE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  3. 1.7 40 km ENE of Schurz, Nevada
  4. 1.8 11 km SSW of Schurz, Nevada
  5. 1.5 30 km NNW of Gabbs, Nevada
  6. 1.6 29 km NW of Gabbs, Nevada
  7. 1.7 24 km NW of Gabbs, Nevada
  8. 1.5 20 km ENE of Schurz, Nevada
  9. 2.2 22 km NNW of Mina, Nevada
  10. 1.7 17 km SE of Schurz, Nevada
  11. 1.5 12 km NNW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  12. 1.6 30 km SE of Fallon Station, Nevada
  13. 1.6 17 km ENE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  14. 1.5 22 km E of Schurz, Nevada
  15. 1.5 7 km N of Walker Lake, 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 2016-07-07 — it released about 5,600 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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