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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.2ml

23 km NW of Walker Lake, Nevada

· 0.0 km deep · released about 1,700 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lyon County 34 kmMineral County 56 kmDouglas County 57 kmAlpine County 73 kmCarson City 79 kmStorey County 88 kmMono County 96 kmChurchill County 105 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 3.2 (ml)
Depth
0.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Measured shaking
intensity III (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Lyon County, 34 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 94 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 1,700 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 200,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 8,800× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 6,200× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1,700 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.8× 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 38.7728, -118.9759. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lyon County, NV 34 km (21 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Mineral County, NV 56 km (35 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Douglas County, NV 57 km (35 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Alpine County, CA 73 km (46 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Carson City, NV 79 km (49 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Carson City
Storey County, NV 88 km (55 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Storey County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 18 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  2. 2.5 23 km NE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  3. 2.0 6 km SSW of Smith Valley, Nevada
  4. 2.1 20 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  5. 1.7 29 km SW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  6. 1.9 18 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  7. 1.6 22 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  8. 3.3 22 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  9. 1.6 13 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  10. 3.5 16 km NE of Yerington, Nevada
  11. 1.6 30 km ENE of Bridgeport, California
  12. 1.7 15 km NE of Yerington, Nevada
  13. 1.8 16 km NE of Yerington, Nevada
  14. 1.6 14 km N of Walker Lake, Nevada
  15. 1.6 23 km ENE of Schurz, 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 6,500 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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