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M 1.8ml

24 km S of Fallon Station, Nevada

· 16 km deep · released about 15 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lyon County 42 kmChurchill County 57 kmStorey County 70 kmDouglas County 80 kmMineral County 82 kmCarson City 85 kmAlpine County 110 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 1.8 (ml)
Depth
16 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lyon County, 42 km WSW
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2113 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 15 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 710,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 63× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 15 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 39.1985, -118.7680. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lyon County, NV 42 km (26 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Churchill County, NV 57 km (36 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Storey County, NV 70 km (44 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Storey County
Douglas County, NV 80 km (49 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Mineral County, NV 82 km (51 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Carson City, NV 85 km (53 mi) E of here earthquakes near Carson City

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 8 km SE of Schurz, Nevada
  2. 1.7 Nevada
  3. 2.1 23 km ESE of Fallon Station, Nevada
  4. 1.8 22 km SW of Schurz, Nevada
  5. 1.5 22 km SW of Schurz, Nevada
  6. 2.1 15 km S of Fallon Station, Nevada
  7. 1.5 15 km E of Silver Springs, Nevada
  8. 1.6 6 km SE of Schurz, Nevada
  9. 1.7 5 km SW of Fallon Station, Nevada
  10. 2.1 4 km ESE of Schurz, Nevada
  11. 2.0 15 km ESE of Fernley, Nevada
  12. 2.6 4 km ESE of Schurz, Nevada
  13. 1.5 13 km S of Schurz, Nevada
  14. 2.5 10 km NE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  15. 1.9 4 km SE of Silver Springs, 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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