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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.9ml

17 km NNW of Stagecoach, Nevada

· 5.9 km deep · released about 21 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Storey County 9 kmCarson City 46 kmLyon County 60 kmDouglas County 68 kmSierra County 90 kmAlpine County 103 kmChurchill County 104 kmNevada County 113 kmPlacer County 118 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.9 (ml)
Depth
5.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Storey County, 9 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 792 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 21 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 710,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 500,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 45× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 21 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 39.5129, -119.4801. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Storey County, NV 9 km (6 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Storey County
Carson City, NV 46 km (29 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Carson City
Lyon County, NV 60 km (37 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Douglas County, NV 68 km (43 mi) N of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Sierra County, CA 90 km (56 mi) E of here earthquakes near Sierra County
Alpine County, CA 103 km (64 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

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

  1. 1.9 15 km of Incline Village-Crystal Bay, NV
  2. 2.1 10 km SW of Nixon, Nevada
  3. 2.0 6 km NNE of Verdi, California
  4. 2.2 5 km NNE of Verdi, California
  5. 1.6 5 km N of Verdi, Nevada
  6. 2.2 5 km SSE of Floriston, California
  7. 1.5 8 km E of Sparks, Nevada
  8. 2.2 11 km NNE of Kings Beach, CA
  9. 2.1 3 km S of Virginia City, Nevada
  10. 1.5 3 km S of Virginia City, Nevada
  11. 1.5 3 km S of Virginia City, Nevada
  12. 2.3 3 km S of Virginia City, Nevada
  13. 2.3 4 km S of Virginia City, Nevada
  14. 1.6 3 km SSE of Virginia City, Nevada
  15. 1.6 16 km E of Fernley, 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 7,900 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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