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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5ml

20 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada

· 12 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lyon County 19 kmStorey County 51 kmDouglas County 55 kmCarson City 59 kmChurchill County 80 kmAlpine County 87 kmMineral County 90 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lyon County, 19 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 653 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 5.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 180× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.4 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 39.1550, -119.0579. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lyon County, NV 19 km (12 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Storey County, NV 51 km (32 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Storey County
Douglas County, NV 55 km (34 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Carson City, NV 59 km (37 mi) E of here earthquakes near Carson City
Churchill County, NV 80 km (50 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Alpine County, CA 87 km (54 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Alpine 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. 2.1 19 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  2. 2.2 22 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  3. 1.5 22 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  4. 1.5 21 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  5. 1.5 20 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  6. 1.6 21 km NE of Yerington, Nevada
  7. 1.6 22 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  8. 1.5 21 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  9. 1.6 17 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  10. 1.6 22 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  11. 2.5 22 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  12. 1.5 21 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  13. 1.5 20 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  14. 2.2 19 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  15. 1.5 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 5.7 on 2024-12-09 — it released about 2,100,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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