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M 1.6ml

3 km NNW of Reno, Nevada

· 8.7 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Storey County 29 kmCarson City 46 kmSierra County 60 kmDouglas County 75 kmLyon County 81 kmNevada County 86 kmPlacer County 95 kmPlumas County 98 kmAlpine County 104 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
8.7 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Storey County, 29 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1969 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 7.6 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.6 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 39.5591, -119.8270. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Storey County, NV 29 km (18 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Storey County
Carson City, NV 46 km (28 mi) N of here earthquakes near Carson City
Sierra County, CA 60 km (37 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 81 km (50 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Nevada County, CA 86 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

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

  1. 2.1 6km N of Tahoe Vista, CA
  2. 3.1 14km SSW of Loyalton, CA
  3. 2.1 7 km ENE of Floriston, California
  4. 1.5 7 km ENE of Floriston, California
  5. 1.9 11 km E of Sparks, Nevada
  6. 1.8 5 km SSW of Dayton, Nevada
  7. 1.9 4 km S of Virginia City, Nevada
  8. 1.9 4 km SSE of Floriston, California
  9. 2.0 17 km ESE of Spanish Springs, Nevada
  10. 1.5 3 km SSE of Floriston, California
  11. 1.5 10 km ESE of Carson City, Nevada
  12. 2.2 4km ESE of Truckee, CA
  13. 1.9 6 km NNE of Carson City, Nevada
  14. 2.0 19km SW of Loyalton, CA
  15. 1.7 20 km WSW of Wadsworth, 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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