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M 1.5ml

39 km ENE of Schurz, Nevada

· 0.0 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Churchill County 55 kmMineral County 59 kmLyon County 71 kmDouglas County 108 kmStorey County 108 kmCarson City 119 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
0.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Churchill County, 55 km N
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1830 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 39.0482, -118.3787. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Churchill County, NV 55 km (34 mi) S of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Mineral County, NV 59 km (37 mi) N of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Lyon County, NV 71 km (44 mi) E of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Douglas County, NV 108 km (67 mi) E of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Storey County, NV 108 km (67 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Storey County
Carson City, NV 119 km (74 mi) E of here earthquakes near Carson City

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 Nevada
  2. 1.5 5 km NNE of Schurz, Nevada
  3. 1.5 32 km ENE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  4. 3.4 32 km NW of Gabbs, Nevada
  5. 1.6 27 km NNW of Gabbs, Nevada
  6. 1.8 3 km SSW of Gabbs, Nevada
  7. 1.8 8 km SE of Schurz, Nevada
  8. 1.5 Nevada
  9. 2.1 4 km NE of Gabbs, Nevada
  10. 1.9 27 km WNW of Gabbs, Nevada
  11. 2.0 28 km WNW of Gabbs, Nevada
  12. 1.5 28 km WNW of Gabbs, Nevada
  13. 1.6 27 km WNW of Gabbs, Nevada
  14. 1.6 8 km NNE of Gabbs, Nevada
  15. 2.2 7 km N of Walker Lake, 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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