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M 3.2ml

15 km ESE of Empire, Nevada

· 9.5 km deep · released about 1,900 lb of TNT

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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 3.2 (ml)
Depth
9.5 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Washoe County, 48 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1632 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,900 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 7,900× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 5,600× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1,900 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2× more

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 40.5071, -119.1791. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Washoe County, NV 48 km (30 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Washoe County
Pershing County, NV 66 km (41 mi) W of here earthquakes near Pershing County
Storey County, NV 122 km (76 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Storey County
Churchill County, NV 133 km (83 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Humboldt County, NV 134 km (83 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Humboldt County
Sierra County, CA 154 km (96 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Sierra County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 40 km NNE of Nixon, Nevada
  2. 1.8 39 km NNE of Nixon, Nevada
  3. 1.6 40 km NNE of Nixon, Nevada
  4. 1.7 38 km NNE of Nixon, Nevada
  5. 1.9 41 km NNE of Nixon, Nevada
  6. 2.5 39 km NNE of Nixon, Nevada
  7. 1.6 39 km NNE of Nixon, Nevada
  8. 2.5 41 km NNE of Nixon, Nevada
  9. 1.8 37 km NE of Nixon, Nevada
  10. 1.7 40 km NNE of Nixon, Nevada
  11. 1.9 40 km NNE of Nixon, Nevada
  12. 2.6 41 km NNE of Nixon, Nevada
  13. 1.7 40 km NNE of Nixon, Nevada
  14. 2.2 40 km NNE of Nixon, Nevada
  15. 1.7 39 km NNE of Nixon, 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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