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M 1.7ml

61 km W of Austin, Nevada

· 11 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Churchill County 44 kmLander County 83 kmMineral County 114 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Churchill County, 44 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 625 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 11 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 89× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 39.4125, -117.7761. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Churchill County, NV 44 km (27 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Lander County, NV 83 km (51 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Lander County
Mineral County, NV 114 km (71 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Pershing County, NV 126 km (79 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Pershing County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 44 km WNW of Austin, Nevada
  2. 1.8 44 km W of Austin, Nevada
  3. 2.1 66 km ENE of Fallon Station, Nevada
  4. 2.0 47 km ENE of Fallon Station, Nevada
  5. 1.7 67 km SE of Lovelock, Nevada
  6. 1.6 42 km NNW of Gabbs, Nevada
  7. 3.6 42 km NNW of Gabbs, Nevada
  8. 2.1 58 km N of Gabbs, Nevada
  9. 1.6 42 km ENE of Fallon Station, Nevada
  10. 2.1 48 km W of Austin, Nevada
  11. 1.8 51 km NNW of Gabbs, 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 4,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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