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M 1.5ml

2km NE of Stovepipe Wells, CA

· 3.9 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
3.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Inyo County, 25 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3010 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 5.4 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 2,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 180× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.4 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 36.6167, -117.1273. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Inyo County, CA 25 km (16 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Inyo County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 14km WSW of Furnace Creek, CA
  2. 1.6 14km W of Furnace Creek, CA
  3. 1.9 35km SW of Furnace Creek, CA
  4. 1.6 12 km WNW of Beatty, Nevada
  5. 2.2 18km E of Stovepipe Wells, CA
  6. 2.2 39km ESE of Lone Pine, CA
  7. 2.8 48km SSW of Stovepipe Wells, CA
  8. 3.1 42km NW of Stovepipe Wells, CA
  9. 1.6 24 km ENE of Furnace Creek, California
  10. 1.6 California-Nevada border region
  11. 2.0 21 km NNW of Furnace Creek, California
  12. 1.6 13 km W of Furnace Creek, California
  13. 2.2 12km SW of Furnace Creek, CA
  14. 2.0 44km SW of Stovepipe Wells, CA
  15. 1.8 27 km NW of Furnace Creek, California

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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