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M 1.5ml

Nevada

· 12 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Douglas County 13 kmCarson City 17 kmLyon County 40 kmAlpine County 46 kmStorey County 48 kmEl Dorado County 80 kmPlacer County 92 kmSierra County 97 kmNevada County 101 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Douglas County, 13 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1286 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 39.0183, -119.6624. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Douglas County, NV 13 km (8 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Carson City, NV 17 km (10 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Carson City
Lyon County, NV 40 km (25 mi) W of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Alpine County, CA 46 km (28 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Storey County, NV 48 km (30 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Storey County
El Dorado County, CA 80 km (50 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near El Dorado County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 6 km N of Yerington, Nevada
  2. 1.5 4 km SE of Topaz Ranch Estates, Nevada
  3. 2.5 18 km NNW of Walker, CA
  4. 1.7 2 km NE of Carter Springs, Nevada
  5. 1.5 3 km NE of Carter Springs, Nevada
  6. 1.5 11 km NE of Johnson Lane, Nevada
  7. 2.2 3 km WSW of Tahoe Vista, CA
  8. 2.5 4 km NNE of Dollar Point, CA
  9. 2.0 4 km WSW of Tahoe Vista, CA
  10. 2.5 4 km N of Dollar Point, CA
  11. 2.1 3 km WSW of Tahoe Vista, CA
  12. 3.2 4 km N of Dollar Point, CA
  13. 1.9 13 km NNE of Virginia City, Nevada
  14. 2.0 12 km N of Kings Beach, CA
  15. 2.0 4 km WSW of Tahoe Vista, 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 4.5 on 2020-03-21 — it released about 32,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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