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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

12 km NNW of Virginia City, Nevada

· 4.6 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Storey County 17 kmCarson City 28 kmDouglas County 57 kmLyon County 62 kmSierra County 71 kmAlpine County 88 kmNevada County 91 kmPlacer County 94 kmEl Dorado County 99 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
4.6 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Storey County, 17 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 442 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 7.6 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.6 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 39.4086, -119.7220. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Storey County, NV 17 km (11 mi) W of here earthquakes near Storey County
Carson City, NV 28 km (18 mi) N of here earthquakes near Carson City
Douglas County, NV 57 km (35 mi) N of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Lyon County, NV 62 km (39 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Sierra County, CA 71 km (44 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Sierra County
Alpine County, CA 88 km (55 mi) N of here earthquakes near Alpine County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 10 km N of Stagecoach, Nevada
  2. 1.7 9 km NNW of Stagecoach, Nevada
  3. 1.8 9 km NNW of Stagecoach, Nevada
  4. 1.9 12 km SSE of Mogul, Nevada
  5. 1.6 12 km SSE of Mogul, Nevada
  6. 1.6 18 km NW of Stagecoach, Nevada
  7. 2.4 6 km SW of Cold Springs, NV
  8. 1.5 4 km ENE of Spanish Springs, Nevada
  9. 1.7 8 km SSW of Dayton, Nevada
  10. 1.5 16 km NW of Stagecoach, Nevada
  11. 1.5 16 km NW of Stagecoach, Nevada
  12. 2.1 5 km W of Tahoe Vista, CA
  13. 1.6 0 km SW of Carnelian Bay, California
  14. 2.3 4 km SW of Tahoe Vista, CA
  15. 1.8 3 km NNE of Dollar Point, CA

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 22,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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