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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

15 km NE of Yerington, Nevada

· 11 km deep · released about 12 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lyon County 16 kmDouglas County 53 kmStorey County 56 kmCarson City 61 kmChurchill County 83 kmAlpine County 84 kmMineral County 84 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 1.7 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lyon County, 16 km WSW
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 12 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,300,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 900,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 80× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 12 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 39.0954, -119.0445. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lyon County, NV 16 km (10 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Douglas County, NV 53 km (33 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Storey County, NV 56 km (35 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Storey County
Carson City, NV 61 km (38 mi) E of here earthquakes near Carson City
Churchill County, NV 83 km (52 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Alpine County, CA 84 km (52 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. 2.2 18 km SSE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  2. 1.7 20 km ESE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  3. 1.6 20 km ESE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  4. 2.1 20 km ESE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  5. 1.9 17 km SE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  6. 1.5 17 km SE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  7. 2.1 18 km SE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  8. 2.0 17 km SE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  9. 1.8 18 km SE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  10. 1.8 18 km SE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  11. 2.6 18 km SE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  12. 2.7 18 km SE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  13. 1.6 17 km SE of Silver Springs, Nevada
  14. 2.0 6 km SSW of Smith Valley, Nevada
  15. 2.1 20 km NNE of Yerington, 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 930,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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