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M 1.9ml

39 km NNW of Gabbs, Nevada

· 14 km deep · released about 21 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Churchill County 41 kmMineral County 81 kmLyon County 98 kmLander County 119 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 1.9 (ml)
Depth
14 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Churchill County, 41 km NNW
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1954 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 21 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 710,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 500,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 45× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 21 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 39.1982, -118.0883. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Churchill County, NV 41 km (25 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Mineral County, NV 81 km (50 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Lyon County, NV 98 km (61 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Lander County, NV 119 km (74 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Lander County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 35 km E of Schurz, Nevada
  2. 1.9 Nevada
  3. 2.1 53 km ENE of Fallon Station, Nevada
  4. 1.5 27 km SSE of Fallon Station, Nevada
  5. 1.7 56 km ENE of Fallon Station, Nevada
  6. 1.5 28 km ENE of Fallon Station, Nevada
  7. 2.0 50 km ENE of Fallon Station, Nevada
  8. 2.4 28 km ENE of Fallon Station, Nevada
  9. 2.3 9 km SW of Gabbs, Nevada
  10. 1.6 31 km ENE of Gabbs, Nevada
  11. 1.7 24 km NW of Gabbs, Nevada
  12. 2.2 56 km NNE of Gabbs, Nevada
  13. 1.6 Nevada
  14. 3.4 32 km NW of Gabbs, Nevada
  15. 1.5 55 km E of Fallon Station, 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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