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M 3.8ml

10 km N of Stagecoach, Nevada

· 13 km deep · released about 7.6 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Storey County 14 kmCarson City 48 kmLyon County 52 kmDouglas County 66 kmChurchill County 95 kmSierra County 99 kmAlpine County 102 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 3.8 (ml)
Depth
13 km below the surface
Felt
214 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Measured shaking
intensity III (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Storey County, 14 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2059 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 214 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 7.6 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 22,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 710× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.8 about 7.6 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 16× more

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 39.4724, -119.3708. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Storey County, NV 14 km (9 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Storey County
Carson City, NV 48 km (30 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Carson City
Lyon County, NV 52 km (32 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Douglas County, NV 66 km (41 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Churchill County, NV 95 km (59 mi) W of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Sierra County, CA 99 km (62 mi) E of here earthquakes near Sierra County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 16 km E of Fernley, Nevada
  2. 2.5 10 km NE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  3. 1.9 4 km SE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  4. 1.6 18 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  5. 1.6 9 km E of Carson City, Nevada
  6. 1.8 14 km WNW of Wadsworth, Nevada
  7. 1.6 5 km SW of Dayton, Nevada
  8. 1.8 18 km SW of Fallon Station, Nevada
  9. 1.9 11 km E of Sparks, Nevada
  10. 1.8 5 km SSW of Dayton, Nevada
  11. 1.9 4 km S of Virginia City, Nevada
  12. 2.0 17 km ESE of Spanish Springs, Nevada
  13. 1.5 10 km ESE of Carson City, Nevada
  14. 3.3 9 km ESE of Carson City, Nevada
  15. 2.0 12 km ESE of Fernley, 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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