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M 1.5ml

9 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada

· 11 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Storey County 67 kmWashoe County 77 kmSierra County 92 kmCarson City 99 kmPlumas County 102 kmPershing County 112 kmLassen County 113 kmLyon County 119 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Storey County, 67 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1339 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 5.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 180× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.4 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 40.0368, -119.6242. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Storey County, NV 67 km (42 mi) N of here earthquakes near Storey County
Washoe County, NV 77 km (48 mi) S of here earthquakes near Washoe County
Sierra County, CA 92 km (57 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Sierra County
Carson City, NV 99 km (61 mi) N of here earthquakes near Carson City
Plumas County, CA 102 km (64 mi) E of here earthquakes near Plumas County
Pershing County, NV 112 km (70 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Pershing County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 4 km E of Spanish Springs, Nevada
  2. 2.1 5 km E of Spanish Springs, Nevada
  3. 1.6 5 km ESE of Spanish Springs, Nevada
  4. 2.1 Nevada
  5. 3.0 5 km ESE of Spanish Springs, Nevada
  6. 1.9 5 km E of Spanish Springs, Nevada
  7. 2.1 5 km ESE of Spanish Springs, Nevada
  8. 2.3 4 km E of Spanish Springs, Nevada
  9. 2.6 4 km E of Spanish Springs, Nevada
  10. 2.0 4 km E of Spanish Springs, Nevada
  11. 3.1 5 km E of Spanish Springs, Nevada
  12. 2.2 4 km ESE of Spanish Springs, Nevada
  13. 3.4 4 km E of Spanish Springs, Nevada
  14. 1.5 15 km WNW of Wadsworth, Nevada
  15. 1.5 30 km NE of Herlong, California

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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