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M 2.0ml

35 km E of Schurz, Nevada

· 7.6 km deep · released about 30 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mineral County 54 kmChurchill County 61 kmLyon County 68 kmDouglas County 104 kmStorey County 108 kmCarson City 117 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (ml)
Depth
7.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mineral County, 54 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1080 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 30 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 32× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 30 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 38.9984, -118.4094. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mineral County, NV 54 km (33 mi) N of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Churchill County, NV 61 km (38 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Lyon County, NV 68 km (42 mi) E of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Douglas County, NV 104 km (65 mi) E of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Storey County, NV 108 km (67 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Storey County
Carson City, NV 117 km (73 mi) E of here earthquakes near Carson City

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. 1.6 16 km NNE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  2. 1.7 17 km ENE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  3. 2.9 17 km ENE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  4. 2.3 17 km ENE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  5. 2.1 17 km E of Walker Lake, Nevada
  6. 4.3 16 km ENE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  7. 2.1 16 km E of Walker Lake, Nevada
  8. 3.3 17 km E of Walker Lake, Nevada
  9. 1.9 17 km E of Walker Lake, Nevada
  10. 1.8 17 km E of Walker Lake, Nevada
  11. 3.0 17 km ENE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  12. 1.6 18 km NNE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  13. 1.5 16 km N of Walker Lake, Nevada
  14. 2.1 16 km ENE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  15. 1.6 17 km E of Walker Lake, 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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