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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.3ml

17 km NE of Yerington, Nevada

· 5.5 km deep · released about 1.3 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lyon County 17 kmDouglas County 54 kmStorey County 54 kmCarson City 61 kmChurchill County 82 kmAlpine County 85 kmMineral County 86 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 3.3 (ml)
Depth
5.5 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Measured shaking
intensity III (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Lyon County, 17 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 568 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1.3 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 130,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 5,600× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 4,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.3 about 1.3 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2.8× 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 39.1190, -119.0465. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lyon County, NV 17 km (11 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Douglas County, NV 54 km (34 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Storey County, NV 54 km (34 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Storey County
Carson City, NV 61 km (38 mi) E of here earthquakes near Carson City
Churchill County, NV 82 km (51 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Alpine County, CA 85 km (53 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. 1.7 17 km NE of Yerington, Nevada
  2. 2.1 17 km NE of Yerington, Nevada
  3. 1.7 17 km NE of Yerington, Nevada
  4. 1.6 16 km NE of Yerington, Nevada
  5. 1.7 16 km NE of Yerington, Nevada
  6. 1.6 23 km NE of Yerington, Nevada
  7. 2.9 11 km ESE of Smith, Nevada
  8. 1.5 21 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  9. 2.2 17 km NE of Yerington, Nevada
  10. 1.5 11 km ESE of Smith, Nevada
  11. 1.6 23 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  12. 1.9 17 km NE of Yerington, Nevada
  13. 1.5 20 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  14. 1.7 19 km NE of Yerington, Nevada
  15. 3.1 19 km NE 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 4,100 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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