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M 1.5ml

16 km E of Fernley, Nevada

· 6.3 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Storey County 43 kmLyon County 64 kmChurchill County 69 kmCarson City 76 kmDouglas County 89 kmPershing County 110 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
6.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Storey County, 43 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1648 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 39.5889, -119.0652. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Storey County, NV 43 km (27 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Storey County
Lyon County, NV 64 km (40 mi) N of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Churchill County, NV 69 km (43 mi) W of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Carson City, NV 76 km (47 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Carson City
Douglas County, NV 89 km (55 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Pershing County, NV 110 km (68 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Pershing County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 23 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  2. 2.8 22 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  3. 2.1 23 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  4. 1.6 22 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  5. 2.8 22 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  6. 3.8 22 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  7. 2.1 10 km SW of Nixon, Nevada
  8. 1.6 16 km E of Fernley, Nevada
  9. 1.5 16 km E of Fernley, Nevada
  10. 1.7 16 km ESE of Fernley, Nevada
  11. 1.9 10 km NW of Fallon, Nevada
  12. 2.1 15 km ESE of Fernley, Nevada
  13. 1.9 17 km NNW of Stagecoach, Nevada
  14. 1.7 13 km NNW of Stagecoach, Nevada
  15. 2.1 13 km NNW of Stagecoach, 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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