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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.1ml

4 km ESE of Schurz, Nevada

· 13 km deep · released about 43 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lyon County 38 kmMineral County 55 kmDouglas County 73 kmChurchill County 80 kmStorey County 86 kmCarson City 88 kmAlpine County 96 kmMono County 113 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.1 (ml)
Depth
13 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lyon County, 38 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1637 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 43 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 350,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 250,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 22× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 43 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 38.9316, -118.7702. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lyon County, NV 38 km (24 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Mineral County, NV 55 km (34 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Douglas County, NV 73 km (45 mi) E of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Churchill County, NV 80 km (50 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Storey County, NV 86 km (53 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Storey County
Carson City, NV 88 km (55 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Carson City

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 5 km ESE of Smith, Nevada
  2. 1.5 6 km E of Smith, Nevada
  3. 1.5 34 km E of Schurz, Nevada
  4. 1.7 9 km NW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  5. 1.5 9 km ESE of Yerington, Nevada
  6. 1.6 20 km ESE of Schurz, Nevada
  7. 1.8 6 km N of Yerington, Nevada
  8. 1.5 20 km ESE of Schurz, Nevada
  9. 1.5 20 km ESE of Schurz, Nevada
  10. 2.1 19 km ESE of Schurz, Nevada
  11. 2.1 20 km ESE of Schurz, Nevada
  12. 3.0 21 km ESE of Schurz, Nevada
  13. 1.6 21 km ESE of Schurz, Nevada
  14. 3.0 California-Nevada border region
  15. 2.2 19 km ESE 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.5 on 2016-07-07 — it released about 4,000 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

On USGS

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