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explosion · automatic estimate, may change

M 2.0ml

13 km NNW of Stagecoach, Nevada

· 2.2 km deep · released about 30 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Storey County 9 kmCarson City 45 kmLyon County 56 kmDouglas County 66 kmSierra County 93 kmAlpine County 101 kmChurchill County 101 kmNevada County 116 kmPlacer County 120 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (ml)
Depth
2.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Storey County, 9 km SW
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 457 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

USGS catalogues this as explosion, not an earthquake.

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 39.4842, -119.4420. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Storey County, NV 9 km (5 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Storey County
Carson City, NV 45 km (28 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Carson City
Lyon County, NV 56 km (34 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Douglas County, NV 66 km (41 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Sierra County, CA 93 km (58 mi) E of here earthquakes near Sierra County
Alpine County, CA 101 km (63 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. 2.0 22 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  2. 3.6 21 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  3. 1.5 24 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  4. 1.5 5 km ESE of Sparks, Nevada
  5. 1.5 13 km WSW of Nixon, Nevada
  6. 1.5 19 km SE of Spanish Springs, Nevada
  7. 1.8 12 km E of Floriston, California
  8. 2.1 12 km E of Floriston, California
  9. 1.7 23 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  10. 1.5 20 km ESE of Spanish Springs, Nevada
  11. 1.6 6 km N of Incline Village, Nevada
  12. 2.0 6 km N of Incline Village, Nevada
  13. 1.5 19 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  14. 1.7 21 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  15. 1.5 5 km N of Spanish 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 5,600 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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