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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

12 km NW of Stagecoach, Nevada

· 8.0 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Storey County 4 kmCarson City 40 kmLyon County 53 kmDouglas County 61 kmSierra County 91 kmAlpine County 96 kmChurchill County 105 kmNevada County 112 kmPlacer County 115 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
8.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Storey County, 4 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 998 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 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 39.4468, -119.4790. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Storey County, NV 4 km (3 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Storey County
Carson City, NV 40 km (25 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Carson City
Lyon County, NV 53 km (33 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Douglas County, NV 61 km (38 mi) N of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Sierra County, CA 91 km (56 mi) E of here earthquakes near Sierra County
Alpine County, CA 96 km (60 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Alpine County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 4 km S of Virginia City, Nevada
  2. 1.6 3 km SSE of Virginia City, Nevada
  3. 2.2 11 km NNE of Tahoe Vista, CA
  4. 1.6 16 km E of Fernley, Nevada
  5. 1.5 16 km E of Fernley, Nevada
  6. 1.7 16 km ESE of Fernley, Nevada
  7. 2.5 11 km NNE of Tahoe Vista, CA
  8. 2.1 15 km ESE of Fernley, Nevada
  9. 1.9 17 km NNW of Stagecoach, Nevada
  10. 1.6 5 km SSE of Floriston, California
  11. 1.6 6 km ESE of Spanish Springs, Nevada
  12. 1.5 3 km S of Virginia City, Nevada
  13. 1.7 13 km NNW of Stagecoach, Nevada
  14. 2.1 13 km NNW of Stagecoach, Nevada
  15. 1.5 6 km NNE of Carson City, 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 2020-03-21 — it released about 16,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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