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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.4ml

48 km NW of Austin, Nevada

· 9.8 km deep · released about 120 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lander County 42 kmChurchill County 70 kmPershing County 107 kmEureka County 108 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 2.4 (ml)
Depth
9.8 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Lander County, 42 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 655 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 120 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 130,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 89,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 7.9× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 120 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 39.7689, -117.5063. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lander County, NV 42 km (26 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Lander County
Churchill County, NV 70 km (43 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Pershing County, NV 107 km (67 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Pershing County
Eureka County, NV 108 km (67 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Eureka County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 44 km WNW of Austin, Nevada
  2. 1.9 57 km ESE of Lovelock, Nevada
  3. 1.9 56 km ESE of Lovelock, Nevada
  4. 1.8 44 km W of Austin, Nevada
  5. 1.6 72 km NW of Austin, Nevada
  6. 2.1 66 km ENE of Fallon Station, Nevada
  7. 1.6 58 km ESE of Lovelock, Nevada
  8. 1.9 63 km ESE of Lovelock, Nevada
  9. 1.7 67 km SE of Lovelock, Nevada
  10. 1.7 51 km ESE of Lovelock, Nevada
  11. 3.1 64 km E of Lovelock, Nevada
  12. 2.1 48 km W of Austin, Nevada
  13. 1.7 61 km W of Austin, 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 4.1 on 2019-04-28 — it released about 350 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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