Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist
M 2.0ml
33km ESE of Big Pine, CA
- When
- Magnitude
- M 2.0 (ml)
- Depth
- 6.8 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Inyo County, 74 km SE
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1647 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 29 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 520,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 370,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 33× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 2.0 about 29 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 37.0712, -117.9397. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inyo County, CA | 74 km (46 mi) | NW of here | earthquakes near Inyo County |
| Esmeralda County, NV | 83 km (52 mi) | SSW of here | earthquakes near Esmeralda County |
| Tulare County, CA | 120 km (75 mi) | NE of here | earthquakes near Tulare County |
| Mono County, CA | 125 km (78 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.
- 1.8 10km NNW of Independence, CA
- 1.8 9km SE of Deep Springs, CA
- 1.8 27 km ESE of Big Pine, California
- 1.6 13 km NE of Big Pine, California
- 2.1 7km SE of Deep Springs, CA
- 1.6 32km ESE of Big Pine, CA
- 2.3 9km NE of Big Pine, CA
- 3.2 4km NNE of Big Pine, CA
- 1.9 54km ENE of Big Pine, CA
- 2.4 57km NW of Stovepipe Wells, CA
- 2.2 57km ENE of Independence, CA
- 2.3 57km ENE of Independence, CA
- 2.0 57km ENE of Independence, CA
- 2.6 57km NW of Stovepipe Wells, CA
- 2.1 53km ENE of Big Pine, 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 15,000 times the energy of this one.
From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.
On USGS
- The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
- Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
- ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one
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