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M 1.5ml

10 km WNW of Nixon, Nevada

· 11 km deep · released about 5.7 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Storey County 49 kmCarson City 84 kmWashoe County 96 kmSierra County 96 kmLyon County 98 kmDouglas County 109 kmPershing County 109 kmChurchill County 110 kmPlumas County 117 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Storey County, 49 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 136 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 5.7 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,600,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,900,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 170× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.7 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 39.8800, -119.4656. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Storey County, NV 49 km (31 mi) N of here earthquakes near Storey County
Carson City, NV 84 km (52 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Carson City
Washoe County, NV 96 km (60 mi) S of here earthquakes near Washoe County
Sierra County, CA 96 km (60 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Sierra County
Lyon County, NV 98 km (61 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Douglas County, NV 109 km (68 mi) N of here earthquakes near Douglas County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 2 km NNW of Sun Valley, Nevada
  2. 1.9 1 km WNW of Sun Valley, Nevada
  3. 2.8 1 km WNW of Sun Valley, Nevada
  4. 1.8 1 km WNW of Sun Valley, Nevada
  5. 1.6 1 km NNW of Sun Valley, Nevada
  6. 1.7 17 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  7. 1.8 8 km ESE of Sparks, Nevada
  8. 1.5 7 km SSE of Spanish Springs, Nevada
  9. 1.9 14 km E of Fernley, Nevada
  10. 1.7 9 km E of Sparks, Nevada
  11. 1.6 12 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  12. 1.7 13 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  13. 1.6 13 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada
  14. 1.6 11 km SSW of Nixon, 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.

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