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M 1.8ml

39 km NNE of Nixon, Nevada

· 6.7 km deep · released about 15 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Pershing County 71 kmWashoe County 78 kmStorey County 85 kmChurchill County 102 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.8 (ml)
Depth
6.7 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Pershing County, 71 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1412 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 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 40.1481, -119.1484. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Pershing County, NV 71 km (44 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Pershing County
Washoe County, NV 78 km (49 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Washoe County
Storey County, NV 85 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 122 km (76 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Carson City
Sierra County, CA 133 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

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

  1. 1.5 13 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  2. 1.9 35 km ENE of Nixon, Nevada
  3. 1.7 8 km N of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  4. 2.3 18 km SSW of Empire, Nevada
  5. 1.8 3 km W of Nixon, Nevada
  6. 1.9 9 km SE of Nixon, Nevada
  7. 1.8 4 km W of Nixon, Nevada
  8. 1.8 19 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  9. 1.6 39 km NNE of Nixon, Nevada
  10. 2.0 14 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  11. 2.1 10 km SW of Nixon, Nevada
  12. 2.6 31 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  13. 2.5 32 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  14. 1.9 24 km WNW of Lovelock, Nevada
  15. 1.8 12 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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