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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5ml

20 km ENE of Schurz, Nevada

· 9.4 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lyon County 51 kmMineral County 61 kmChurchill County 62 kmDouglas County 88 kmStorey County 90 kmCarson City 99 kmAlpine County 113 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 1.5 (ml)
Depth
9.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lyon County, 51 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1993 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 5.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 180× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.4 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 39.0459, -118.6071. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lyon County, NV 51 km (32 mi) E of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Mineral County, NV 61 km (38 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Churchill County, NV 62 km (39 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Douglas County, NV 88 km (55 mi) E of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Storey County, NV 90 km (56 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Storey County
Carson City, NV 99 km (62 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

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

  1. 1.5 22 km SW of Schurz, Nevada
  2. 2.6 36 km W of Gabbs, Nevada
  3. 2.1 15 km S of Fallon Station, Nevada
  4. 1.9 37 km W of Gabbs, Nevada
  5. 2.0 18 km NE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  6. 1.7 29 km NW of Gabbs, Nevada
  7. 1.6 6 km SE of Schurz, Nevada
  8. 1.9 34 km NNW of Gabbs, Nevada
  9. 3.3 23 km NNE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  10. 1.7 5 km SW of Fallon Station, Nevada
  11. 1.5 18 km NE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  12. 2.1 4 km ESE of Schurz, Nevada
  13. 2.6 4 km ESE of Schurz, Nevada
  14. 1.5 13 km S of Schurz, Nevada
  15. 1.5 19 km ENE of Yerington, 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 2016-07-07 — it released about 32,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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