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M 1.8ml

3 km N of Reno, Nevada

· 11 km deep · released about 15 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Storey County 28 kmCarson City 46 kmSierra County 61 kmDouglas County 75 kmLyon County 80 kmNevada County 87 kmPlacer County 96 kmPlumas County 99 kmAlpine County 105 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
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Storey County, 28 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2087 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 39.5626, -119.8135. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Storey County, NV 28 km (18 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Storey County
Carson City, NV 46 km (29 mi) N of here earthquakes near Carson City
Sierra County, CA 61 km (38 mi) E of here earthquakes near Sierra County
Douglas County, NV 75 km (47 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Lyon County, NV 80 km (50 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Nevada County, CA 87 km (54 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Nevada County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.1 19km NW of Truckee, CA
  2. 1.6 3 km NNW of Reno, Nevada
  3. 1.5 15 km SSE of Sierraville, California
  4. 2.3 11km N of Truckee, CA
  5. 1.5 6 km S of Cold Springs, Nevada
  6. 1.8 8 km NW of Virginia City, Nevada
  7. 2.6 4km W of Tahoe Vista, CA
  8. 1.5 14 km SE of Sparks, Nevada
  9. 2.1 8 km W of Wadsworth, Nevada
  10. 2.1 2 km NE of Sun Valley, Nevada
  11. 1.7 2 km NE of Sun Valley, Nevada
  12. 1.9 2 km NE of Sun Valley, Nevada
  13. 1.5 8 km NE of Truckee, California
  14. 2.1 Nevada
  15. 1.8 8 km WNW of Virginia City, 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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