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M 2.6ml

37km NW of Stovepipe Wells, CA

· 4.6 km deep · released about 250 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.6 (ml)
Depth
4.6 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Inyo County, 30 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1431 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 250 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 61,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 43,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 3.8× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 250 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 36.8255, -117.4605. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Inyo County, CA 30 km (18 mi) N of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Esmeralda County, NV 107 km (67 mi) S of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Tulare County, CA 135 km (84 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Tulare 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. 1.6 California-Nevada border region
  2. 1.5 58 km S of Goldfield, Nevada
  3. 2.0 57 km S of Goldfield, Nevada
  4. 1.7 57 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  5. 1.9 59 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada
  6. 2.0 65 km WNW of Beatty, Nevada
  7. 1.6 26 km NW of Furnace Creek, California
  8. 2.1 5km E of Stovepipe Wells, CA
  9. 1.6 58 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  10. 2.1 57 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  11. 1.6 60km E of Big Pine, CA
  12. 1.7 54 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  13. 2.9 70km NNW of Stovepipe Wells, CA
  14. 1.5 58 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  15. 1.9 57 km ENE of Independence, 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.7 on 2020-08-19 — it released about 1,500 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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