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M 2.9ml

27 km W of Empire, Nevada

· 12 km deep · released about 590 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Washoe County 17 kmLassen County 82 kmPershing County 107 kmPlumas County 118 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 2.9 (ml)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Washoe County, 17 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 87 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 590 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 26,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 18,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.6× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.9 about 590 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 40.5744, -119.6670. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Washoe County, NV 17 km (11 mi) S of here earthquakes near Washoe County
Lassen County, CA 82 km (51 mi) E of here earthquakes near Lassen County
Pershing County, NV 107 km (67 mi) W of here earthquakes near Pershing County
Plumas County, CA 118 km (73 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Plumas County
Sierra County, CA 133 km (82 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Sierra County
Modoc County, CA 143 km (89 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

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

  1. 1.8 22 km SSW of Empire, Nevada
  2. 2.0 2 km SSE of Burning Man Earth, Nevada
  3. 1.6 15 km WSW of Gerlach, Nevada
  4. 3.8 20 km WSW of Gerlach, Nevada
  5. 1.8 22 km W of Gerlach, Nevada
  6. 1.5 22 km W of Gerlach, Nevada
  7. 2.1 20 km W of Gerlach, Nevada
  8. 2.4 22 km W of Gerlach, Nevada
  9. 2.2 21 km W of Gerlach, Nevada
  10. 1.6 22 km W of Gerlach, Nevada
  11. 1.6 15 km WSW of Gerlach, Nevada
  12. 3.3 23 km W of Gerlach, Nevada
  13. 1.6 7 km WSW of Burning Man Earth, Nevada
  14. 2.6 23 km WSW of Gerlach, Nevada
  15. 2.2 24 km ENE of Honey Lake, CA

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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