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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.2mw

20 km NE of Yerington, Nevada

· 7.2 km deep · released about 1,900 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lyon County 21 kmDouglas County 59 kmStorey County 61 kmCarson City 67 kmChurchill County 78 kmMineral County 81 kmAlpine County 89 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 3.2 (mw)
Depth
7.2 km below the surface
Felt
3 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Measured shaking
intensity III (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Lyon County, 21 km WSW
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. 3 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,900 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 7,900× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 5,600× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1,900 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2× 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 39.0987, -118.9723. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lyon County, NV 21 km (13 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Douglas County, NV 59 km (37 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Storey County, NV 61 km (38 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Storey County
Carson City, NV 67 km (42 mi) E of here earthquakes near Carson City
Churchill County, NV 78 km (49 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Mineral County, NV 81 km (50 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

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

  1. 2.5 17 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  2. 2.1 19 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  3. 1.8 21 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  4. 1.6 22 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  5. 1.6 20 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  6. 1.9 22 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  7. 3.2 21 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  8. 1.5 16 km NE of Yerington, Nevada
  9. 1.5 24 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  10. 1.5 21 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  11. 1.5 16 km NE of Yerington, Nevada
  12. 2.3 16 km NE of Yerington, Nevada
  13. 2.2 16 km NE of Yerington, Nevada
  14. 1.9 21 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  15. 1.5 10 km ESE of Smith, 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 5,800 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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