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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

30 km ENE of Herlong, California

· 5.2 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Washoe County 60 kmStorey County 88 kmLassen County 91 kmPlumas County 91 kmSierra County 94 kmCarson City 116 kmPershing County 120 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
5.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Washoe County, 60 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1510 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 40.2002, -119.7845. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Washoe County, NV 60 km (37 mi) S of here earthquakes near Washoe County
Storey County, NV 88 km (54 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Storey County
Lassen County, CA 91 km (57 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Lassen County
Plumas County, CA 91 km (57 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Plumas County
Sierra County, CA 94 km (58 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Sierra County
Carson City, NV 116 km (72 mi) N of here earthquakes near Carson City

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 37 km W of Empire, Nevada
  2. 1.6 34 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  3. 1.9 18 km NW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  4. 2.6 22 km NW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  5. 1.6 16 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  6. 1.8 12 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  7. 2.1 18 km NW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  8. 2.3 19 km NW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  9. 2.5 16 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  10. 2.0 33 km NNE of Herlong, California
  11. 2.4 42 km NE of Herlong, California
  12. 2.4 41 km WSW of Empire, Nevada
  13. 1.6 41 km WSW of Empire, Nevada
  14. 1.6 28 km ENE of Herlong, California
  15. 1.9 38 km WSW of Empire, 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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