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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.8ml

18 km SW of Fallon Station, Nevada

· 6.0 km deep · released about 15 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lyon County 42 kmStorey County 57 kmChurchill County 59 kmCarson City 76 kmDouglas County 77 kmMineral County 97 kmAlpine County 110 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
6.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lyon County, 42 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1798 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 39.3077, -118.8824. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lyon County, NV 42 km (26 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Storey County, NV 57 km (35 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Storey County
Churchill County, NV 59 km (37 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Carson City, NV 76 km (48 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Carson City
Douglas County, NV 77 km (48 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Mineral County, NV 97 km (60 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Mineral County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 9 km ESE of Yerington, Nevada
  2. 1.8 6 km N of Yerington, Nevada
  3. 1.5 11 km NNW of Stagecoach, Nevada
  4. 2.4 California-Nevada border region
  5. 2.7 28 km ENE of Fallon Station, Nevada
  6. 1.9 29 km ENE of Fallon Station, Nevada
  7. 1.5 27 km SSE of Fallon Station, Nevada
  8. 1.5 20 km NNE of Schurz, Nevada
  9. 1.5 28 km ENE of Fallon Station, Nevada
  10. 1.6 8 km SW of Schurz, Nevada
  11. 3.0 8 km SW of Schurz, Nevada
  12. 2.2 8 km SW of Schurz, Nevada
  13. 1.6 19 km WSW of Fallon, Nevada
  14. 2.4 28 km ENE of Fallon Station, Nevada
  15. 1.6 26 km NNE of Schurz, 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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