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M 2.0ml

10 km SSW of Kingvale, California

· 7.9 km deep · released about 30 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Nevada County 27 kmPlacer County 28 kmSierra County 39 kmEl Dorado County 50 kmCarson City 63 kmYuba County 75 kmDouglas County 83 kmStorey County 85 kmAmador County 89 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (ml)
Depth
7.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Nevada County, 27 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2176 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 39.2302, -120.4757. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Nevada County, CA 27 km (16 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Nevada County
Placer County, CA 28 km (18 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Placer County
Sierra County, CA 39 km (24 mi) S of here earthquakes near Sierra County
El Dorado County, CA 50 km (31 mi) N of here earthquakes near El Dorado County
Carson City, NV 63 km (39 mi) W of here earthquakes near Carson City
Yuba County, CA 75 km (47 mi) E of here earthquakes near Yuba 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. 2.2 19km NW of Truckee, CA
  2. 3.0 19km NW of Truckee, CA
  3. 4.7 19km NW of Truckee, CA
  4. 1.7 15 km SSE of Sierraville, California
  5. 2.7 20km NW of Truckee, CA
  6. 3.1 19km NW of Truckee, CA
  7. 1.5 15 km SSE of Sierraville, California
  8. 2.5 9km SE of Dollar Point, CA
  9. 2.4 16km SW of Loyalton, CA
  10. 1.6 8 km SE of Dollar Point, California
  11. 2.1 9km SE of Dollar Point, CA
  12. 2.3 11km N of Truckee, CA
  13. 1.6 8 km SE of Dollar Point, California
  14. 2.4 10km SE of Dollar Point, CA
  15. 1.5 8 km WNW of Glenbrook, 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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