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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.8ml

11 km SSW of Schurz, Nevada

· 11 km deep · released about 15 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lyon County 33 kmMineral County 55 kmDouglas County 64 kmCarson City 82 kmAlpine County 84 kmStorey County 86 kmChurchill County 92 kmMono County 105 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 1.8 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lyon County, 33 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1936 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 15 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 710,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 63× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 15 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 38.8570, -118.8749. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lyon County, NV 33 km (21 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Mineral County, NV 55 km (34 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Douglas County, NV 64 km (40 mi) E of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Carson City, NV 82 km (51 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Carson City
Alpine County, CA 84 km (52 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Storey County, NV 86 km (53 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Storey County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 38 km ENE of Schurz, Nevada
  2. 2.1 6 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  3. 1.8 11 km NE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  4. 1.8 19 km NE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  5. 1.9 26 km WSW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  6. 1.7 15 km SSE of Smith Valley, Nevada
  7. 1.7 40 km ENE of Schurz, Nevada
  8. 1.5 12 km ESE of Smith, Nevada
  9. 1.8 19 km E of Walker, 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.5 on 2016-07-07 — it released about 11,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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