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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

2 km WNW of Burning Man Earth, Nevada

· 1.5 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Washoe County 35 kmPershing County 80 kmLassen County 116 kmHumboldt County 117 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
1.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Washoe County, 35 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1037 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 7.6 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.6 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 40.7778, -119.2511. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Washoe County, NV 35 km (22 mi) E of here earthquakes near Washoe County
Pershing County, NV 80 km (50 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Pershing County
Lassen County, CA 116 km (72 mi) E of here earthquakes near Lassen County
Humboldt County, NV 117 km (73 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Humboldt County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.9 27 km W of Empire, Nevada
  2. 1.8 32 km W of Empire, Nevada
  3. 1.8 33 km W of Gerlach, Nevada
  4. 2.3 45 km N of Black Rock City, Nevada
  5. 2.2 30 km WSW of Gerlach, Nevada
  6. 1.6 16 km WSW of Empire, Nevada
  7. 2.2 31 km WSW of Gerlach, Nevada
  8. 1.7 32 km WSW of Gerlach, Nevada
  9. 1.9 20 km W of Empire, Nevada
  10. 2.5 27 km WSW of Gerlach, Nevada
  11. 2.8 20 km WSW of Gerlach, Nevada
  12. 3.1 26 km WSW of Gerlach, Nevada
  13. 2.5 24 km W of Empire, Nevada
  14. 1.6 30 km W of Gerlach, Nevada
  15. 2.0 32 km W of Gerlach, 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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