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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.4ml

13 km NNE of Virginia City, Nevada

· 11 km deep · released about 120 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Storey County 5 kmCarson City 33 kmLyon County 54 kmDouglas County 57 kmSierra County 83 kmAlpine County 90 kmNevada County 104 kmPlacer County 106 kmEl Dorado County 109 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
11 km below the surface
Felt
4 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Storey County, 5 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 470 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 4 people have 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 39.4159, -119.5742. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Storey County, NV 5 km (3 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Storey County
Carson City, NV 33 km (20 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Carson City
Lyon County, NV 54 km (34 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Douglas County, NV 57 km (35 mi) N of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Sierra County, CA 83 km (52 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Sierra County
Alpine County, CA 90 km (56 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

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

  1. 2.6 3 km NW of Cold Springs, NV
  2. 1.7 7 km NNE of Kings Beach, CA
  3. 1.5 5 km N of Spanish Springs, Nevada
  4. 2.0 4 km NNE of Dollar Point, CA
  5. 1.5 3 km WSW of Tahoe Vista, CA
  6. 1.9 14 km E of Fernley, Nevada
  7. 1.8 14 km E of Fernley, Nevada
  8. 1.8 9 km ENE of Sparks, Nevada
  9. 1.6 11 km E of Sparks, Nevada
  10. 2.2 9 km ENE of Sparks, Nevada
  11. 1.7 4 km NNE of Dollar Point, CA
  12. 1.8 4 km NNE of Dollar Point, CA
  13. 1.7 4 km WSW of Tahoe Vista, CA
  14. 1.7 3 km WSW of Tahoe Vista, CA
  15. 1.5 8 km SE of Silver Springs, 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 1,400 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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