QuakeIndex

Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.4mw

21 km W of Empire, Nevada

· 4.0 km deep · released about 2 tons of TNT

Felt it? Tell USGS Check my area
10 km30 km60 km120 km N Washoe County 18 kmLassen County 88 kmPershing County 101 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 3.4 (mw)
Depth
4.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Washoe County, 18 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 179 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 2 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 86,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 3,800× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,700× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.4 about 2 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 4.1× more

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 40.5788, -119.5905. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Washoe County, NV 18 km (11 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Washoe County
Lassen County, CA 88 km (55 mi) E of here earthquakes near Lassen County
Pershing County, NV 101 km (63 mi) W of here earthquakes near Pershing County
Plumas County, CA 123 km (77 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Plumas County
Sierra County, CA 137 km (85 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Sierra County
Modoc County, CA 147 km (91 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Modoc County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 2 km SSE of Burning Man Earth, Nevada
  2. 1.6 15 km WSW of Gerlach, Nevada
  3. 3.8 20 km WSW of Gerlach, Nevada
  4. 1.8 22 km W of Gerlach, Nevada
  5. 1.5 22 km W of Gerlach, Nevada
  6. 2.1 20 km W of Gerlach, Nevada
  7. 2.4 22 km W of Gerlach, Nevada
  8. 2.2 21 km W of Gerlach, Nevada
  9. 1.6 22 km W of Gerlach, Nevada
  10. 1.6 15 km WSW of Gerlach, Nevada
  11. 3.3 23 km W of Gerlach, Nevada
  12. 1.6 7 km WSW of Burning Man Earth, Nevada
  13. 2.6 23 km WSW of Gerlach, Nevada
  14. 2.4 38 km WSW of Gerlach, Nevada
  15. 2.1 31 km W of Empire, 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.

On USGS

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