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M 1.5ml

6 km S of Cold Springs, Nevada

· 7.1 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Storey County 43 kmSierra County 48 kmCarson City 56 kmNevada County 78 kmPlumas County 84 kmDouglas County 86 kmPlacer County 90 kmLyon County 94 kmEl Dorado County 105 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
7.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Storey County, 43 km ESE
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1982 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 39.6253, -119.9675. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Storey County, NV 43 km (27 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Storey County
Sierra County, CA 48 km (30 mi) E of here earthquakes near Sierra County
Carson City, NV 56 km (35 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Carson City
Nevada County, CA 78 km (48 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Nevada County
Plumas County, CA 84 km (52 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Plumas County
Douglas County, NV 86 km (53 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Douglas County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 4km SW of Tahoe Vista, CA
  2. 1.8 14 km WNW of Wadsworth, Nevada
  3. 1.7 7 km ENE of Floriston, California
  4. 2.0 14km SSW of Loyalton, CA
  5. 1.6 6 km ENE of Floriston, California
  6. 2.1 6km N of Tahoe Vista, CA
  7. 3.1 14km SSW of Loyalton, CA
  8. 2.1 7 km ENE of Floriston, California
  9. 1.5 7 km ENE of Floriston, California
  10. 1.9 11 km E of Sparks, Nevada
  11. 1.9 4 km S of Virginia City, Nevada
  12. 1.9 4 km SSE of Floriston, California
  13. 2.0 17 km ESE of Spanish Springs, Nevada
  14. 1.5 3 km SSE of Floriston, California
  15. 1.5 10 km ENE of Doyle, California

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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