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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.6mw

21 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada

· 5.0 km deep · released about 4.5 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lyon County 20 kmStorey County 51 kmDouglas County 56 kmCarson City 60 kmChurchill County 79 kmAlpine County 88 kmMineral County 90 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 3.6 (mw)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
20 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Lyon County, 20 km SW
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. 20 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 4.5 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 38,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,700× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,200× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.6 about 4.5 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 9.4× 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 39.1606, -119.0474. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lyon County, NV 20 km (12 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Storey County, NV 51 km (32 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Storey County
Douglas County, NV 56 km (35 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Carson City, NV 60 km (38 mi) E of here earthquakes near Carson City
Churchill County, NV 79 km (49 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Alpine County, CA 88 km (55 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Alpine County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.5 19 km SE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  2. 2.2 19 km ESE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  3. 1.9 19 km ESE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  4. 1.7 20 km ESE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  5. 2.4 17 km SE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  6. 1.9 18 km SE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  7. 1.5 17 km ESE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  8. 3.0 20 km ESE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  9. 1.6 21 km WSW of Fallon Station, Nevada
  10. 1.9 17 km SE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  11. 1.6 17 km SE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  12. 3.3 21 km ESE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  13. 3.1 19 km SE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  14. 1.6 17 km ESE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  15. 2.0 17 km SE 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 5.7 on 2024-12-09 — it released about 1,200 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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