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M 1.6ml

40 km NNE of Nixon, Nevada

· 14 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Pershing County 70 kmWashoe County 77 kmStorey County 86 kmChurchill County 102 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
14 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Pershing County, 70 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1419 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 7.6 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.6 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 40.1553, -119.1483. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Pershing County, NV 70 km (44 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Pershing County
Washoe County, NV 77 km (48 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Washoe County
Storey County, NV 86 km (53 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Storey County
Churchill County, NV 102 km (63 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Carson City, NV 123 km (76 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Carson City
Sierra County, CA 134 km (83 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

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

  1. 2.3 18 km SSW of Empire, Nevada
  2. 1.8 3 km W of Nixon, Nevada
  3. 1.9 9 km SE of Nixon, Nevada
  4. 1.8 4 km W of Nixon, Nevada
  5. 1.8 19 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  6. 1.6 39 km NNE of Nixon, Nevada
  7. 2.0 14 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  8. 2.6 31 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  9. 2.5 32 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  10. 1.9 24 km WNW of Lovelock, Nevada
  11. 1.8 12 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  12. 2.5 16 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  13. 1.7 41 km E of Nixon, Nevada
  14. 1.5 16 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  15. 2.5 14 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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