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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

16 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada

· 13 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Storey County 72 kmWashoe County 73 kmSierra County 89 kmPlumas County 96 kmCarson City 102 kmLassen County 106 kmPershing County 117 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 1.7 (ml)
Depth
13 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Storey County, 72 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1542 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 11 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 89× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 40.0728, -119.7039. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Storey County, NV 72 km (45 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Storey County
Washoe County, NV 73 km (46 mi) S of here earthquakes near Washoe County
Sierra County, CA 89 km (55 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Sierra County
Plumas County, CA 96 km (60 mi) E of here earthquakes near Plumas County
Carson City, NV 102 km (64 mi) N of here earthquakes near Carson City
Lassen County, CA 106 km (66 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Lassen County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 29 km SSW of Empire, Nevada
  2. 1.9 29 km SSW of Empire, Nevada
  3. 2.5 Nevada
  4. 1.9 28 km ENE of Herlong, California
  5. 1.9 Nevada
  6. 1.6 28 km ENE of Herlong, California
  7. 1.8 21 km ENE of Herlong, California
  8. 2.3 Nevada, United States
  9. 1.6 6 km ESE of Spanish Springs, Nevada
  10. 1.9 Nevada
  11. 1.7 5 km ESE of Spanish Springs, Nevada
  12. 2.2 5 km E of Spanish Springs, Nevada
  13. 1.7 4 km E of Spanish Springs, Nevada
  14. 2.1 5 km E of Spanish Springs, Nevada
  15. 1.6 5 km ESE of Spanish Springs, 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 2016-08-04 — it released about 15,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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