42 km NNW of Gabbs, Nevada

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

At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 72 km (45 mi) from the epicentre. Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.

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.

For this area

No earthquake of M4 or more has been recorded within 50 km since our catalogue begins in 2016.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 32 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:

1. 7.1 The 1954 Fairview Peak, Nevada Earthquake · 10 km ESE of this epicentre Dec 16, 1954
2. 6.5 17 km ESE of Fallon Station, Nevada · 38 km WNW of this epicentre Aug 24, 1954
3. 6.2 The 1954 Rainbow Mountain, Nevada Earthquake · 44 km WNW of this epicentre Jul 6, 1954
4. 5.9 21 km SSE of Fallon Station, Nevada · 42 km W of this epicentre Jul 6, 1954
5. 5.8 48 km NNW of Gabbs, Nevada · 6 km N of this epicentre Dec 16, 1954

Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.

Where

Epicentre 39.2238, -118.1154. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

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

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 2.0 49 km W of Kingston, Nevada 19:36 UTC
2. 1.8 24 km ENE of Schurz, Nevada 12:36 UTC
3. 2.9 55 km NNE of Gabbs, Nevada 02:43 UTC
4. 1.5 26 km ESE of Fallon Station, Nevada 13:10 UTC
5. 1.8 25 km ESE of Fallon Station, Nevada 04:28 UTC
6. 1.6 25 km ESE of Fallon Station, Nevada 23:57 UTC
7. 1.6 21 km NW of Gabbs, Nevada 03:55 UTC
8. 1.7 20 km NW of Gabbs, Nevada 01:59 UTC
9. 1.7 34 km WNW of Gabbs, Nevada 08:53 UTC
10. 1.6 23 km ENE of Schurz, Nevada 13:58 UTC
11. 2.2 23 km ENE of Schurz, Nevada 13:55 UTC
12. 2.0 24 km ENE of Schurz, Nevada 11:31 UTC
13. 2.0 47 km ENE of Fallon Station, Nevada 13:19 UTC
14. 1.9 21 km NE of Schurz, Nevada 12:55 UTC
15. 1.5 37 km ENE of Schurz, Nevada 03:22 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 21:31 UTC. QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

On USGS

• The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
• Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
• ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

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