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M 2.4ml

California-Nevada border region

· 8.3 km deep · released about 120 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lyon County 33 kmMineral County 56 kmDouglas County 66 kmCarson City 83 kmStorey County 84 kmChurchill County 87 kmAlpine County 88 kmMono County 109 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 2.4 (ml)
Depth
8.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lyon County, 33 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1056 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 120 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 130,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 89,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 7.9× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 120 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 38.8985, -118.8446. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lyon County, NV 33 km (21 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Mineral County, NV 56 km (35 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Douglas County, NV 66 km (41 mi) E of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Carson City, NV 83 km (52 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Carson City
Storey County, NV 84 km (52 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Storey County
Churchill County, NV 87 km (54 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Churchill County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 17 km E of Walker Lake, Nevada
  2. 3.0 17 km ENE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  3. 1.6 18 km NNE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  4. 1.5 16 km N of Walker Lake, Nevada
  5. 2.1 16 km ENE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  6. 1.6 17 km E of Walker Lake, Nevada
  7. 1.5 17 km ENE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  8. 2.8 16 km ENE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  9. 1.5 16 km ENE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  10. 2.9 16 km ENE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  11. 2.0 16 km ENE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  12. 2.0 16 km E of Walker Lake, Nevada
  13. 2.9 17 km NE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  14. 1.7 16 km NE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  15. 2.7 15 km NE 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.5 on 2016-07-07 — it released about 1,400 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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