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M 1.7ml

32km E of Big Pine, CA

· 3.4 km deep · released about 9.6 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
3.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Esmeralda County, 77 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3009 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 9.6 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 1,600,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,100,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 99× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 9.6 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 37.1288, -117.9268. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Esmeralda County, NV 77 km (48 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Inyo County, CA 78 km (49 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Mono County, CA 121 km (75 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Tulare County, CA 126 km (78 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Tulare County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 20 km S of Dyer, Nevada
  2. 1.6 California-Nevada border region
  3. 2.2 62km ENE of Big Pine, CA
  4. 1.7 3 km ENE of Wilkerson, California
  5. 1.8 44km ENE of Independence, CA
  6. 2.4 5 km SSE of Wilkerson, California
  7. 1.6 5 km ESE of Wilkerson, California
  8. 1.7 6 km NE of Wilkerson, California
  9. 1.6 20km S of Big Pine, CA
  10. 1.8 28 km NE of Big Pine, California
  11. 1.6 24km ENE of Independence, CA
  12. 1.9 28 km SSE of Dyer, Nevada
  13. 1.7 35 km SE of Dyer, Nevada
  14. 2.2 7km ESE of Independence, CA
  15. 1.6 7km ESE of Independence, CA

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 45,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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