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M 3.0ml

36km ESE of Big Pine, CA

· -0.3 km deep · released about 1,100 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.0 (ml)
Depth
-0.3 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Inyo County, 72 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1565 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,100 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 320,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 14,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 10,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 1,100 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 37.0793, -117.8942. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Inyo County, CA 72 km (45 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Esmeralda County, NV 81 km (50 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Tulare County, CA 123 km (77 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Mono County, CA 127 km (79 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Mono County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 19km ENE of Lone Pine, CA
  2. 1.6 7 km E of Wilkerson, California
  3. 1.5 19 km SSE of Dyer, Nevada
  4. 1.8 41 km NE of Independence, California
  5. 2.2 61 km WNW of Beatty, Nevada
  6. 2.0 52 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  7. 2.5 25 km E of Bishop, California
  8. 1.6 57 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  9. 1.7 19km ENE of Lone Pine, CA
  10. 1.6 66km NNW of Stovepipe Wells, CA
  11. 2.0 12 km SE of Independence, California
  12. 1.6 19km ENE of Lone Pine, CA
  13. 2.1 20km ENE of Lone Pine, CA
  14. 1.9 20 km S of Dyer, Nevada
  15. 1.6 California-Nevada border region

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 4.8 on 2016-02-16 — it released about 410 times the energy of this one.

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

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