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M 2.2ml

30 km NNW of Lovelock, Nevada

· 9.8 km deep · released about 60 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Pershing County 19 kmWashoe County 94 kmChurchill County 104 kmHumboldt County 117 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.2 (ml)
Depth
9.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Pershing County, 19 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1641 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 60 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 250,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 16× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.2 about 60 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 40.4261, -118.6298. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Pershing County, NV 19 km (12 mi) W of here earthquakes near Pershing County
Washoe County, NV 94 km (58 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Washoe County
Churchill County, NV 104 km (64 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Humboldt County, NV 117 km (73 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Humboldt County
Storey County, NV 134 km (83 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Storey County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 25 km SW of Humboldt, Nevada
  2. 1.5 6 km SSE of Humboldt, Nevada
  3. 1.9 30 km ENE of Lovelock, Nevada
  4. 1.8 29 km WNW of Lovelock, Nevada
  5. 1.7 29 km ENE of Lovelock, Nevada
  6. 1.5 31 km ENE of Lovelock, Nevada
  7. 2.0 25 km WNW of Lovelock, Nevada
  8. 2.0 28 km NW of Lovelock, Nevada
  9. 1.6 29 km ENE of Lovelock, Nevada
  10. 1.7 30 km ENE of Lovelock, Nevada
  11. 1.8 19 km E of Black Rock City, Nevada
  12. 2.4 24 km ESE of Black Rock City, Nevada
  13. 2.8 22 km ESE of Black Rock City, Nevada
  14. 2.6 20 km E of Black Rock City, Nevada
  15. 1.9 24 km WNW of Lovelock, 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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