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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0md

24km ENE of Lee Vining, CA

· 0.1 km deep · released about 31 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 11 kmMineral County 68 kmTuolumne County 97 kmMariposa County 104 kmAlpine County 106 kmEsmeralda County 111 kmLyon County 116 kmMadera County 119 kmDouglas County 119 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (md)
Depth
0.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 11 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3126 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 31 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.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 480,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 340,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 31× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 31 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 38.0118, -118.8608. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 11 km (7 mi) N of here earthquakes near Mono County
Mineral County, NV 68 km (42 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Tuolumne County, CA 97 km (60 mi) E of here earthquakes near Tuolumne County
Mariposa County, CA 104 km (65 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Mariposa County
Alpine County, CA 106 km (66 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Esmeralda County, NV 111 km (69 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 28 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  2. 1.7 27 km S of Hawthorne, Nevada
  3. 1.8 27 km S of Hawthorne, Nevada
  4. 2.7 27 km S of Hawthorne, Nevada
  5. 1.5 28 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  6. 1.9 5km W of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  7. 2.2 28 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  8. 1.5 29 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  9. 1.8 27 km SW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  10. 1.5 19km ENE of Lee Vining, CA
  11. 1.6 27 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  12. 1.6 7km ENE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  13. 2.3 26 km SSE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  14. 3.0 27 km SSE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  15. 1.7 19km SE of Bodie, 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 5.6 on 2016-12-28 — it released about 240,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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