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M 1.8ml

3 km W of Nixon, Nevada

· 7.7 km deep · released about 15 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Storey County 46 kmCarson City 82 kmLyon County 92 kmSierra County 100 kmWashoe County 102 kmChurchill County 103 kmDouglas County 105 kmPershing County 108 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.8 (ml)
Depth
7.7 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Storey County, 46 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 446 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 15 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 710,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 63× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 15 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 39.8362, -119.4000. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Storey County, NV 46 km (28 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Storey County
Carson City, NV 82 km (51 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Carson City
Lyon County, NV 92 km (57 mi) N of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Sierra County, CA 100 km (62 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Sierra County
Washoe County, NV 102 km (63 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Washoe County
Churchill County, NV 103 km (64 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Churchill County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 2 km NNW of Sun Valley, Nevada
  2. 1.9 1 km WNW of Sun Valley, Nevada
  3. 2.8 1 km WNW of Sun Valley, Nevada
  4. 1.8 1 km WNW of Sun Valley, Nevada
  5. 1.6 1 km NNW of Sun Valley, Nevada
  6. 1.7 17 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  7. 1.8 8 km ESE of Sparks, Nevada
  8. 1.5 7 km SSE of Spanish Springs, Nevada
  9. 1.9 14 km E of Fernley, Nevada
  10. 1.7 9 km E of Sparks, Nevada
  11. 1.6 12 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  12. 1.7 13 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  13. 1.6 13 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  14. 1.6 11 km SSW of Nixon, Nevada
  15. 1.5 10 km WNW of Nixon, 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.

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