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M 1.5ml

41km E of Big Pine, CA

· 1.9 km deep · released about 5.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Esmeralda County 65 kmInyo County 82 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
1.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Esmeralda County, 65 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 5.6 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,700,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,900,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 170× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.6 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 37.2182, -117.8322. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Esmeralda County, NV 65 km (40 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Inyo County, CA 82 km (51 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Mono County, CA 120 km (75 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Tulare County, CA 139 km (86 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. 3.0 23km NE of Independence, CA
  2. 1.8 45 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada
  3. 2.0 56 km S of Goldfield, Nevada
  4. 1.6 54 km ENE of Independence, California
  5. 1.9 54km ENE of Independence, CA
  6. 1.6 53 km NNE of Keeler, California
  7. 2.0 53km NW of Stovepipe Wells, CA
  8. 2.2 56km NW of Stovepipe Wells, CA
  9. 1.8 54km ENE of Independence, CA
  10. 1.5 54 km ENE of Independence, California
  11. 1.7 53 km ENE of Independence, California
  12. 1.8 46 km S of Goldfield, Nevada
  13. 1.6 California-Nevada border region
  14. 2.0 4 km SW of Big Pine, California
  15. 1.6 54km ENE 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.

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