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M 3.3ml

41 km NNE of Nixon, Nevada

· 8.3 km deep · released about 1.3 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Pershing County 69 kmWashoe County 76 kmStorey County 88 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 3.3 (ml)
Depth
8.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Pershing County, 69 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1345 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1.3 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 130,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 5,600× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 4,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.3 about 1.3 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2.8× more

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 40.1720, -119.1480. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Pershing County, NV 69 km (43 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Pershing County
Washoe County, NV 76 km (47 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Washoe County
Storey County, NV 88 km (54 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Storey County
Churchill County, NV 103 km (64 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Carson City, NV 124 km (77 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Carson City
Sierra County, CA 135 km (84 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Sierra County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 14 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  2. 2.6 31 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  3. 2.5 32 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  4. 1.9 24 km WNW of Lovelock, Nevada
  5. 1.8 12 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  6. 2.5 16 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  7. 1.7 41 km E of Nixon, Nevada
  8. 1.5 16 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  9. 2.5 14 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  10. 1.6 44 km SW of Lovelock, Nevada
  11. 1.5 32 km SSW of Empire, Nevada
  12. 2.6 32 km SW of Empire, Nevada
  13. 2.8 22 km SSW of Empire, Nevada
  14. 1.5 30 km SSW of Empire, Nevada
  15. 1.5 17 km NNW of Sutcliffe, 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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