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M 1.7ml

22 km E of Fallon Station, Nevada

· 14 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Churchill County 19 kmLyon County 80 kmStorey County 92 kmMineral County 104 kmPershing County 110 kmCarson City 116 kmDouglas County 116 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 1.7 (ml)
Depth
14 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Churchill County, 19 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 375 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 11 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 89× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 39.4511, -118.4573. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Churchill County, NV 19 km (12 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Lyon County, NV 80 km (49 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Storey County, NV 92 km (57 mi) E of here earthquakes near Storey County
Mineral County, NV 104 km (65 mi) N of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Pershing County, NV 110 km (68 mi) S of here earthquakes near Pershing County
Carson City, NV 116 km (72 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Carson City

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 20 km ESE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  2. 3.0 20 km ESE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  3. 1.6 20 km ESE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  4. 1.6 23 km ENE of Schurz, Nevada
  5. 2.2 23 km ENE of Schurz, Nevada
  6. 2.0 24 km ENE of Schurz, Nevada
  7. 2.1 66 km ENE of Fallon Station, Nevada
  8. 4.0 20 km ESE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  9. 1.6 20 km ESE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  10. 1.5 20 km ESE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  11. 1.6 20 km ESE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  12. 2.0 47 km ENE of Fallon Station, Nevada
  13. 1.5 20 km ESE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  14. 1.6 20 km ESE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  15. 1.8 20 km ESE of Silver 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.

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