QuakeIndex

Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.3ml

18 km SSW of Empire, Nevada

· 2.5 km deep · released about 85 lb of TNT

Felt it? Tell USGS Check my area
10 km30 km60 km120 km N Washoe County 43 kmPershing County 83 kmStorey County 109 kmLassen 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 2.3 (ml)
Depth
2.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Washoe County, 43 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 424 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 85 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 130,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 11× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 85 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 40.4097, -119.3912. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Washoe County, NV 43 km (26 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Washoe County
Pershing County, NV 83 km (52 mi) W of here earthquakes near Pershing County
Storey County, NV 109 km (67 mi) N of here earthquakes near Storey County
Lassen County, CA 109 km (68 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Lassen County
Sierra County, CA 134 km (83 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Sierra County
Churchill County, NV 136 km (85 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Churchill County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 22 km W of Gerlach, Nevada
  2. 2.2 21 km W of Gerlach, Nevada
  3. 1.6 22 km W of Gerlach, Nevada
  4. 1.6 15 km WSW of Gerlach, Nevada
  5. 3.3 23 km W of Gerlach, Nevada
  6. 1.6 7 km WSW of Burning Man Earth, Nevada
  7. 1.7 17 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  8. 2.6 23 km WSW of Gerlach, Nevada
  9. 2.4 38 km WSW of Gerlach, Nevada
  10. 2.1 31 km W of Empire, 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. 1.9 21 km WSW of Gerlach, Nevada
  15. 2.1 23 km E of Herlong, California

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.

On USGS

QuakeIndex does not issue warnings. For earthquake early warning see ShakeAlert.