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Earthquake · automatic estimate, may change

M 1.5ml

27 km NW of Sutcliffe, Nevada

· 0.0 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Washoe County 66 kmStorey County 83 kmSierra County 89 kmPlumas County 89 kmLassen County 94 kmCarson City 111 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 1.5 (ml)
Depth
0.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Washoe County, 66 km N
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1911 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 40.1507, -119.7992. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Washoe County, NV 66 km (41 mi) S of here earthquakes near Washoe County
Storey County, NV 83 km (51 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Storey County
Sierra County, CA 89 km (55 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Sierra County
Plumas County, CA 89 km (55 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Plumas County
Lassen County, CA 94 km (58 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Lassen County
Carson City, NV 111 km (69 mi) N of here earthquakes near Carson City

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 28 km NW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  2. 1.8 34 km NE of Herlong, California
  3. 1.7 19 km NW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  4. 1.6 27 km ENE of Herlong, California
  5. 1.8 Nevada
  6. 1.5 9 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  7. 1.5 14 km NW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  8. 1.9 29 km NNE of Herlong, California
  9. 2.3 15km SE of Honey Lake, CA
  10. 1.5 30 km E of Herlong, California
  11. 2.2 8 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  12. 1.9 30 km E of Herlong, California
  13. 1.7 30 km ENE of Herlong, California
  14. 2.0 17 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  15. 2.7 23 km N of Sutcliffe, 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.5 on 2016-08-04 — it released about 30,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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