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M 2.9ml

57 km SSE of Imlay, Nevada

· 9.5 km deep · released about 680 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Pershing County 58 kmLander County 72 kmChurchill County 86 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.9 (ml)
Depth
9.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Pershing County, 58 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 886 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 680 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 22,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 16,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.9 about 680 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 40.2183, -117.7876. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Pershing County, NV 58 km (36 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Pershing County
Lander County, NV 72 km (45 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Lander County
Churchill County, NV 86 km (53 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Churchill County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 34 km E of Lovelock, Nevada
  2. 1.9 57 km ESE of Lovelock, Nevada
  3. 1.9 56 km ESE of Lovelock, Nevada
  4. 1.9 30 km ENE of Lovelock, Nevada
  5. 1.6 72 km NW of Austin, Nevada
  6. 1.8 35 km SSE of Humboldt, Nevada
  7. 1.7 29 km ENE of Lovelock, Nevada
  8. 1.5 31 km ENE of Lovelock, Nevada
  9. 1.6 58 km ESE of Lovelock, Nevada
  10. 1.6 29 km ENE of Lovelock, Nevada
  11. 1.7 30 km ENE of Lovelock, Nevada
  12. 1.9 63 km ESE of Lovelock, Nevada
  13. 1.7 51 km ESE of Lovelock, Nevada
  14. 2.6 37 km ESE of Imlay, Nevada
  15. 3.1 64 km E of Lovelock, 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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