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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

2 km NNE of Carter Springs, Nevada

· 0.8 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Douglas County 3 kmAlpine County 32 kmCarson City 32 kmLyon County 41 kmStorey County 63 kmEl Dorado County 79 kmPlacer County 97 kmTuolumne County 100 kmAmador County 101 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
0.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Douglas County, 3 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 717 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 38.8784, -119.6301. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Douglas County, NV 3 km (2 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Alpine County, CA 32 km (20 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Carson City, NV 32 km (20 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Carson City
Lyon County, NV 41 km (25 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Storey County, NV 63 km (39 mi) S of here earthquakes near Storey County
El Dorado County, CA 79 km (49 mi) E of here earthquakes near El Dorado County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.5 7 km SSW of Markleeville, CA
  2. 1.5 5 km S of Carter Springs, Nevada
  3. 1.6 7 km ENE of Coleville, California
  4. 2.3 18 km of Walker, CA
  5. 1.5 4 km SSW of Markleeville, California
  6. 2.3 4 km SSW of Markleeville, CA
  7. 2.5 3 km SSW of Markleeville, CA
  8. 1.5 3 km SSW of Markleeville, California
  9. 2.4 2 km WNW of Walker, CA
  10. 2.0 3 km NNW of Walker, CA
  11. 1.5 2 km N of Topaz Lake, Nevada
  12. 2.8 3 km W of Markleeville, CA
  13. 1.6 3 km SE of Topaz Ranch Estates, Nevada
  14. 1.5 6 km SSW of Smith Valley, Nevada
  15. 1.6 2 km N of Carter Springs, 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 6.0 on 2021-07-08 — it released about 2,800,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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