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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

4 km S of Dayton, Nevada

· 6.2 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Carson City 14 kmStorey County 27 kmDouglas County 33 kmLyon County 40 kmAlpine County 66 kmSierra County 90 kmEl Dorado County 93 kmPlacer County 98 kmNevada County 101 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
6.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Carson City, 14 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2173 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 7.6 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.6 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 39.1990, -119.5995. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Carson City, NV 14 km (9 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Carson City
Storey County, NV 27 km (17 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Storey County
Douglas County, NV 33 km (20 mi) N of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Lyon County, NV 40 km (25 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Alpine County, CA 66 km (41 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Sierra County, CA 90 km (56 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Sierra County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 9km SE of Dollar Point, CA
  2. 2.1 9km SE of Dollar Point, CA
  3. 2.4 9km SE of Dollar Point, CA
  4. 2.5 9km SE of Dollar Point, CA
  5. 2.9 9km SE of Dollar Point, CA
  6. 2.4 9km SE of Dollar Point, CA
  7. 2.8 9km SE of Dollar Point, CA
  8. 3.7 8km SE of Dollar Point, CA
  9. 1.7 10 km E of Silver Springs, Nevada
  10. 1.8 8 km NW of Virginia City, Nevada
  11. 2.6 4km W of Tahoe Vista, CA
  12. 1.5 14 km SE of Sparks, Nevada
  13. 2.1 2 km NE of Sun Valley, Nevada
  14. 1.7 2 km NE of Sun Valley, Nevada
  15. 1.9 2 km NE of Sun Valley, 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 22,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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