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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.5ml

17 km WSW of Schurz, Nevada

· 13 km deep · released about 170 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lyon County 25 kmDouglas County 54 kmMineral County 63 kmCarson City 73 kmAlpine County 76 kmStorey County 78 kmChurchill County 97 kmMono County 107 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 2.5 (ml)
Depth
13 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lyon County, 25 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 758 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 170 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 89,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 63,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 5.6× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.5 about 170 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 38.8726, -118.9880. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lyon County, NV 25 km (15 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Douglas County, NV 54 km (33 mi) E of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Mineral County, NV 63 km (39 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Carson City, NV 73 km (45 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Carson City
Alpine County, CA 76 km (47 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Storey County, NV 78 km (49 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Storey County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 15 km ENE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  2. 1.9 17 km ENE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  3. 3.4 17 km ENE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  4. 2.4 16 km ENE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  5. 3.3 17 km ENE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  6. 1.8 16 km NNE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  7. 2.2 17 km ENE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  8. 2.5 17 km ENE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  9. 1.9 17 km ENE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  10. 1.6 17 km ENE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  11. 2.0 17 km ENE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  12. 2.7 16 km E of Walker Lake, Nevada
  13. 3.3 17 km E of Walker Lake, Nevada
  14. 2.6 17 km ENE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  15. 2.0 16 km NNE of Hawthorne, 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 1,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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