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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0ml

6 km NNE of Verdi, California

· 4.8 km deep · released about 30 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Storey County 42 kmSierra County 46 kmCarson City 51 kmNevada County 74 kmDouglas County 81 kmPlacer County 85 kmPlumas County 85 kmLyon County 92 kmEl Dorado County 100 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (ml)
Depth
4.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Storey County, 42 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 703 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 30 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 32× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 30 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 39.5747, -119.9862. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Storey County, NV 42 km (26 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Storey County
Sierra County, CA 46 km (29 mi) E of here earthquakes near Sierra County
Carson City, NV 51 km (32 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Carson City
Nevada County, CA 74 km (46 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Nevada County
Douglas County, NV 81 km (50 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Placer County, CA 85 km (53 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Placer County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 9 km ENE of Sparks, Nevada
  2. 1.6 11 km E of Sparks, Nevada
  3. 2.2 9 km ENE of Sparks, Nevada
  4. 1.7 4 km NNE of Dollar Point, CA
  5. 1.8 4 km NNE of Dollar Point, CA
  6. 1.7 4 km WSW of Tahoe Vista, CA
  7. 1.7 3 km WSW of Tahoe Vista, CA
  8. 2.1 6 km SSE of Floriston, California
  9. 1.8 4 km ESE of Truckee, CA
  10. 2.9 14 km SW of Loyalton, CA
  11. 2.3 14 km SW of Loyalton, CA
  12. 2.2 13 km SSW of Loyalton, CA
  13. 2.9 14 km SW of Loyalton, CA
  14. 1.9 13 km NNW of Stagecoach, Nevada
  15. 1.5 5 km SE of Floriston, California

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 4.7 on 2021-05-07 — it released about 9,400 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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