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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 4.0mwr

20 km ESE of Silver Springs, Nevada

· 2.0 km deep · released about 16 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lyon County 40 kmStorey County 46 kmChurchill County 67 kmCarson City 68 kmDouglas County 72 kmMineral County 105 kmAlpine County 106 km
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When
Magnitude
M 4.0 (mwr)
Depth
2.0 km below the surface
Felt
137 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
green
Nearest
Lyon County, 40 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 27 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon. 137 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 16 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 10,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 470× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 330× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.0 about 16 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 34× 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 39.3464, -118.9997. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lyon County, NV 40 km (25 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Storey County, NV 46 km (29 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Storey County
Churchill County, NV 67 km (41 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Carson City, NV 68 km (42 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Carson City
Douglas County, NV 72 km (45 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Mineral County, NV 105 km (65 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Mineral County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 19 km ESE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  2. 1.8 17 km SE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  3. 1.9 18 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  4. 1.7 19 km ESE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  5. 1.6 22 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  6. 1.8 22 km SE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  7. 3.3 22 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada
  8. 1.6 19 km ESE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  9. 1.8 20 km ESE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  10. 1.5 17 km SE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  11. 1.9 17 km SE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  12. 3.0 17 km SE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  13. 3.4 18 km SE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  14. 1.9 20 km ESE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  15. 2.0 19 km ESE 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 340 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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