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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

2 km NNE of Reno, Nevada

· 5.8 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Storey County 27 kmCarson City 44 kmSierra County 62 kmDouglas County 74 kmLyon County 78 kmNevada County 88 kmPlacer County 96 kmPlumas County 100 kmAlpine County 103 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
5.8 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Storey County, 27 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 939 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 11 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 89× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 39.5498, -119.8031. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Storey County, NV 27 km (17 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Storey County
Carson City, NV 44 km (28 mi) N of here earthquakes near Carson City
Sierra County, CA 62 km (38 mi) E of here earthquakes near Sierra County
Douglas County, NV 74 km (46 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Lyon County, NV 78 km (49 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Nevada County, CA 88 km (55 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Nevada County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 6 km ESE of Spanish Springs, Nevada
  2. 1.5 3 km S of Virginia City, Nevada
  3. 1.7 13 km NNW of Stagecoach, Nevada
  4. 2.3 18 km NNW of Truckee, CA
  5. 2.1 13 km NNW of Stagecoach, Nevada
  6. 1.5 6 km NNE of Carson City, Nevada
  7. 1.6 6 km W of Dayton, Nevada
  8. 2.0 10 km E of Sparks, Nevada
  9. 1.6 2 km S of Virginia City, Nevada
  10. 1.8 2 km S of Virginia City, Nevada
  11. 2.0 12 km NNW of Virginia City, Nevada
  12. 1.5 3 km S of Virginia City, Nevada
  13. 2.1 6 km W of Tahoe Vista, CA
  14. 1.9 9 km ESE of Sparks, Nevada
  15. 1.5 9 km N of Lemmon Valley, 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 4.7 on 2021-05-07 — it released about 27,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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