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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.6ml

11 km E of Silver Springs, Nevada

· 13 km deep · released about 280 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Storey County 37 kmLyon County 46 kmCarson City 64 kmChurchill County 72 kmDouglas County 73 kmAlpine County 108 kmMineral County 116 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 2.6 (ml)
Depth
13 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Storey County, 37 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 64 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 280 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 55,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 39,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 3.5× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 280 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 39.4244, -119.0889. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Storey County, NV 37 km (23 mi) E of here earthquakes near Storey County
Lyon County, NV 46 km (28 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Carson City, NV 64 km (40 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Carson City
Churchill County, NV 72 km (45 mi) W of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Douglas County, NV 73 km (45 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Alpine County, CA 108 km (67 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

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

  1. 1.5 18 km SE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  2. 1.6 18 km SE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  3. 1.6 18 km SSE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  4. 3.4 17 km SSE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  5. 2.0 18 km SSE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  6. 2.8 17 km SE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  7. 2.1 19 km ESE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  8. 1.9 19 km ESE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  9. 1.6 17 km SE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  10. 2.2 18 km ESE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  11. 3.7 17 km SE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  12. 1.6 14 km SE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  13. 2.0 17 km SE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  14. 1.5 17 km SE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  15. 1.9 19 km SSE 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 40,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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