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M 5.7mwr

2024 Parker Butte, Nevada Earthquake

· 8.0 km deep · released about 5.5 kilotons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lyon County 22 kmStorey County 53 kmDouglas County 58 kmCarson City 62 kmChurchill County 77 kmMineral County 89 kmAlpine County 90 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 5.7 (mwr)
Depth
8.0 km below the surface
Felt
8416 reports · strongest reported intensity VI
Measured shaking
intensity VII (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
green
Nearest
Lyon County, 22 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 73 days ago

This was a moderate earthquake. Shaking at this size can damage poorly built structures close to the epicentre. 8416 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

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.

  1. Loma Prieta, California 1989 M 6.9 61× the energy of this one
  2. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 31× the energy of this one
  3. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1.4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 5.7 about 5.5 kilotons of TNT
  5. 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

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lyon County, NV 22 km (14 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Storey County, NV 53 km (33 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Storey County
Douglas County, NV 58 km (36 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Carson City, NV 62 km (39 mi) E of here earthquakes near Carson City
Churchill County, NV 77 km (48 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Mineral County, NV 89 km (56 mi) NW of here 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.

  1. 2.0 23 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  2. 1.6 23 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  3. 2.0 23 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  4. 2.5 22 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  5. 1.7 22 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  6. 2.0 21 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  7. 1.9 23 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  8. 1.6 19 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  9. 1.8 22 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  10. 1.8 22 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  11. 2.0 22 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  12. 1.6 23 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  13. 1.8 23 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  14. 2.4 21 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  15. 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.

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