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Earthquake · automatic estimate, may change

M 1.7ml

8 km SE of Dollar Point, California

· 8.9 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Carson City 24 kmDouglas County 45 kmStorey County 54 kmEl Dorado County 59 kmPlacer County 61 kmAlpine County 61 kmSierra County 64 kmNevada County 66 kmLyon County 73 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 1.7 (ml)
Depth
8.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Carson City, 24 km E
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1961 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 11 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 89× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 39.1414, -120.0281. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Carson City, NV 24 km (15 mi) W of here earthquakes near Carson City
Douglas County, NV 45 km (28 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Storey County, NV 54 km (34 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Storey County
El Dorado County, CA 59 km (37 mi) NE of here earthquakes near El Dorado County
Placer County, CA 61 km (38 mi) E of here earthquakes near Placer County
Alpine County, CA 61 km (38 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Alpine County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 4 km N of Carter Springs, Nevada
  2. 1.6 5 km SW of Dayton, Nevada
  3. 2.1 6km N of Tahoe Vista, CA
  4. 2.1 7 km ENE of Floriston, California
  5. 1.5 7 km W of Mesa Vista, California
  6. 1.5 7 km ENE of Floriston, California
  7. 1.9 4 km N of Carter Springs, Nevada
  8. 1.9 4 km N of Carter Springs, Nevada
  9. 1.8 5 km SSW of Dayton, Nevada
  10. 1.9 4 km S of Virginia City, Nevada
  11. 1.9 4 km SSE of Floriston, California
  12. 1.5 3 km SSE of Floriston, California
  13. 1.5 10 km ESE of Carson City, Nevada
  14. 3.3 9 km ESE of Carson City, Nevada
  15. 2.2 4km ESE of Truckee, CA

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 4.7 on 2021-05-07 — it released about 27,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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