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M 2.4ml

19 km SSW of Schurz, Nevada

· 8.1 km deep · released about 130 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lyon County 36 kmMineral County 52 kmDouglas County 63 kmAlpine County 80 kmCarson City 84 kmStorey County 90 kmMono County 97 kmChurchill County 100 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.4 (ml)
Depth
8.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lyon County, 36 km NW
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 337 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 130 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 110,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 80,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 7.2× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 130 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 38.7881, -118.9029. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lyon County, NV 36 km (23 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Mineral County, NV 52 km (32 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Douglas County, NV 63 km (39 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Alpine County, CA 80 km (50 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Carson City, NV 84 km (52 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Carson City
Storey County, NV 90 km (56 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Storey County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 16 km NE of Yerington, Nevada
  2. 1.6 14 km N of Walker Lake, Nevada
  3. 1.6 23 km ENE of Schurz, Nevada
  4. 2.2 23 km ENE of Schurz, Nevada
  5. 2.0 24 km ENE of Schurz, Nevada
  6. 1.5 19 km NE of Yerington, Nevada
  7. 1.8 19 km NE of Yerington, Nevada
  8. 1.6 23 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  9. 1.8 21 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  10. 1.6 26 km SW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  11. 1.6 20 km NE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  12. 1.7 15 km NNW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  13. 1.9 21 km NE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  14. 1.6 22 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  15. 1.5 1 km NNE of Schurz, 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 83,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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