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M 1.7ml

67 km E of Fallon Station, Nevada

· 14 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Churchill County 28 kmLander County 88 kmPershing County 111 kmMineral County 117 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
14 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Churchill County, 28 km W
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1846 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

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 39.5065, -117.9426. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Churchill County, NV 28 km (17 mi) E of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Lander County, NV 88 km (55 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Lander County
Pershing County, NV 111 km (69 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Pershing County
Mineral County, NV 117 km (73 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Lyon County, NV 121 km (75 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Lyon County

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. 2.0 47 km ENE of Fallon Station, Nevada
  2. 1.9 63 km ESE of Lovelock, Nevada
  3. 1.7 67 km SE of Lovelock, Nevada
  4. 1.6 42 km NNW of Gabbs, Nevada
  5. 3.6 42 km NNW of Gabbs, Nevada
  6. 2.1 58 km N of Gabbs, Nevada
  7. 1.6 42 km ENE of Fallon Station, Nevada
  8. 1.7 22 km E of Fallon Station, Nevada
  9. 2.1 48 km W of Austin, Nevada
  10. 1.8 51 km NNW of Gabbs, Nevada
  11. 1.7 61 km W of Austin, Nevada
  12. 2.4 48 km NW of Austin, Nevada
  13. 2.3 39 km WSW of Austin, Nevada
  14. 2.2 46 km NNW of Gabbs, Nevada
  15. 1.6 23 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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