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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.8ml

22 km SW of Schurz, Nevada

· 11 km deep · released about 15 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lyon County 33 kmMineral County 57 kmDouglas County 57 kmAlpine County 74 kmCarson City 79 kmStorey County 87 kmMono County 97 kmChurchill County 103 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 1.8 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Lyon County, 33 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1490 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 15 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 710,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 63× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 15 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 38.7868, -118.9703. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lyon County, NV 33 km (20 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Mineral County, NV 57 km (35 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Douglas County, NV 57 km (35 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Alpine County, CA 74 km (46 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Carson City, NV 79 km (49 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Carson City
Storey County, NV 87 km (54 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Storey County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 California-Nevada border region
  2. 2.1 13 km NE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  3. 2.8 28 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  4. 1.8 27 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  5. 1.6 8 km NW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  6. 1.6 8 km NW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  7. 1.5 9 km NNW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  8. 1.7 9 km NNW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  9. 2.1 16 km SE of Schurz, Nevada
  10. 2.5 30 km ENE of Bridgeport, California
  11. 1.6 California-Nevada border region
  12. 1.7 28 km SW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  13. 1.8 California-Nevada border region
  14. 1.7 15 km SSW of Schurz, Nevada
  15. 2.5 11km ENE of Walker, CA

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 5.6 on 2016-12-28 — it released about 500,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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