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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.3ml

13 km NW of Stagecoach, Nevada

· 11 km deep · released about 85 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Storey County 7 kmCarson City 43 kmLyon County 55 kmDouglas County 65 kmSierra County 91 kmAlpine County 99 kmChurchill County 103 kmNevada County 114 kmPlacer County 118 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Storey County, 7 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 538 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 85 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 130,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 11× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 85 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 39.4751, -119.4644. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Storey County, NV 7 km (4 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Storey County
Carson City, NV 43 km (27 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Carson City
Lyon County, NV 55 km (34 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Douglas County, NV 65 km (40 mi) N of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Sierra County, CA 91 km (57 mi) E of here earthquakes near Sierra County
Alpine County, CA 99 km (62 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Alpine County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 4 km NNE of Cold Springs, Nevada
  2. 1.6 9 km E of Sparks, Nevada
  3. 1.6 22 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  4. 1.9 9 km SE of Nixon, Nevada
  5. 1.6 10 km E of Sparks, Nevada
  6. 1.6 12 km NNW of Virginia City, Nevada
  7. 1.5 12 km NNW of Virginia City, Nevada
  8. 1.6 12 km NNW of Virginia City, Nevada
  9. 1.9 8 km E of Sparks, Nevada
  10. 1.8 4 km W of Nixon, Nevada
  11. 1.5 20 km SE of Spanish Springs, Nevada
  12. 1.5 13 km ESE of Fernley, Nevada
  13. 1.6 13 km NW of Stagecoach, Nevada
  14. 1.8 13 km NW of Stagecoach, Nevada
  15. 1.8 12 km NW of Stagecoach, 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 4.5 on 2020-03-21 — it released about 2,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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