The earthquake remains as one of the best examples ever for evidence of creating fault scarps along the west side of the Tobin Range.

[5] Among the scarps, the average vertical displacement among the affected areas was 2 meters (6 ft 7 in), and the maximum displacement of 5.8 meters (19 ft) occurred near the old Pierce School site on Buskee Creek Canyon.

[4][6] The rupture originated along an unnamed fault somewhere in the eastern side of Pleasant Valley, in north-central Nevada.

Water tanks were knocked over in Battle Mountain, Kodiak, Lovelock, and Parran.

[7] The earthquake had several aftershocks which disturbed a significant amount of land in Northern Nevada.