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M 5.7mwr
2024 Parker Butte, Nevada Earthquake
Yes. A magnitude 5.7 earthquake was recorded 2024 Parker Butte, Nevada Earthquake, 83 km (51 mi) ESE of Reno, NV, at 3:08 pm PST on 9 December 2024 (23:08 UTC), 8.0 km deep. 8,416 people have reported feeling it to USGS.
83 km (51 mi) ESE of Reno, NV
- When
- Magnitude
- M 5.7 (mwr)
- Depth
- 8.0 km below the surface
- Felt
- 8,416 reports · strongest reported intensity VI
- Measured shaking
- intensity VII (ShakeMap)
- USGS impact alert
- green
- Nearest
- Lyon County, 22 km SW
- Nearest mapped fault
- Wassuk Range fault, 11 km from its surface trace — near is not the same as on
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 118 days ago
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This was a moderate earthquake. Shaking at this size can damage poorly built structures close to the epicentre.
At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 295 km (183 mi) from the epicentre. Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.
Likely felt in: Yerington 24 km, intensity V · Silver Springs 33 km, intensity V · Fallon 40 km, intensity IV. Estimated for each town centre; each link is that town's own record.
How big was it?
This earthquake released about 5.5 kilotons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 6.7 would have released about 32 times as much.
- Loma Prieta, California 1989 M 6.9 61× the energy of this one
- Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 31× the energy of this one
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1.4× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 5.7 about 5.5 kilotons of TNT
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 12,000× more
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 39.1675, -119.0238. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction from the epicentre | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lyon County, NV | 22 km (14 mi) | SW | earthquakes near Lyon County |
| Storey County, NV | 53 km (33 mi) | NW | earthquakes near Storey County |
| Douglas County, NV | 58 km (36 mi) | WSW | earthquakes near Douglas County |
| Carson City, NV | 62 km (39 mi) | W | earthquakes near Carson City |
| Churchill County, NV | 77 km (48 mi) | ENE | earthquakes near Churchill County |
| Mineral County, NV | 89 km (56 mi) | SE | earthquakes near Mineral County |
Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.
Aftershocks so far
60 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
- 2.0 23 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
- 1.6 23 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
- 2.0 23 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
- 2.5 22 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
- 1.7 22 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
- 2.0 21 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
- 1.9 23 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
- 1.6 19 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
- 1.8 22 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
- 1.8 22 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
- 2.0 22 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
- 1.6 23 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
- 1.8 23 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
- 2.4 21 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
- 3.3 21 km NNE of Yerington, 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.
On USGS
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- ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one
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