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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0ml

20 km SSE of Fallon Station, Nevada

· 9.0 km deep · released about 30 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Churchill County 48 kmLyon County 52 kmStorey County 77 kmMineral County 83 kmDouglas County 89 kmCarson City 94 kmAlpine County 119 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 2.0 (ml)
Depth
9.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Churchill County, 48 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 460 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 30 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 32× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 30 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 39.2363, -118.6657. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Churchill County, NV 48 km (30 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Lyon County, NV 52 km (32 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Storey County, NV 77 km (48 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Storey County
Mineral County, NV 83 km (52 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Douglas County, NV 89 km (56 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Carson City, NV 94 km (58 mi) E of here earthquakes near Carson City

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 20 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  2. 2.6 22 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  3. 1.6 16 km NE of Yerington, Nevada
  4. 1.5 15 km SSE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  5. 1.5 37 km ENE of Schurz, Nevada
  6. 1.6 42 km NNW of Gabbs, Nevada
  7. 3.0 20 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  8. 2.0 22 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  9. 1.5 17 km NW of Schurz, Nevada
  10. 3.6 21 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  11. 1.5 24 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  12. 1.7 17 km NE of Yerington, Nevada
  13. 1.6 17 km NE of Yerington, Nevada
  14. 2.3 17 km NE of Yerington, Nevada
  15. 1.6 17 km NE of Yerington, 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 370,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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