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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.2ml

23 km ENE of Schurz, Nevada

· 11 km deep · released about 56 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lyon County 55 kmMineral County 60 kmChurchill County 61 kmDouglas County 92 kmStorey County 94 kmCarson City 103 kmAlpine County 117 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 2.2 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lyon County, 55 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 83 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 56 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 270,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 190,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 17× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.2 about 56 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 39.0420, -118.5644. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lyon County, NV 55 km (34 mi) E of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Mineral County, NV 60 km (37 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Churchill County, NV 61 km (38 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Douglas County, NV 92 km (57 mi) E of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Storey County, NV 94 km (58 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Storey County
Carson City, NV 103 km (64 mi) E of here earthquakes near Carson City

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 21 km NW of Gabbs, Nevada
  2. 1.7 20 km NW of Gabbs, Nevada
  3. 1.7 34 km WNW of Gabbs, Nevada
  4. 1.9 18 km NNE of Yerington, 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. 3.5 16 km NE of Yerington, Nevada
  9. 1.7 15 km NE of Yerington, Nevada
  10. 1.8 16 km NE of Yerington, Nevada
  11. 1.6 14 km N of Walker Lake, Nevada
  12. 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 200,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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