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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

4km ESE of Mammoth Lakes, CA

· 6.1 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 33 kmMadera County 85 kmMariposa County 86 kmTuolumne County 100 kmMineral County 110 kmFresno County 115 kmEsmeralda County 116 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (md)
Depth
6.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 33 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2378 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 7.6 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.6 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 37.6218, -118.9393. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 33 km (21 mi) S of here earthquakes near Mono County
Madera County, CA 85 km (53 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Madera County
Mariposa County, CA 86 km (53 mi) E of here earthquakes near Mariposa County
Tuolumne County, CA 100 km (62 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Tuolumne County
Mineral County, NV 110 km (68 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Fresno County, CA 115 km (71 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Fresno County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 29km SE of Bodie, CA
  2. 1.7 29km SE of Bodie, CA
  3. 2.6 30km SE of Bodie, CA
  4. 2.0 30km SE of Bodie, CA
  5. 2.2 14km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  6. 1.6 8km E of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  7. 1.9 7km NW of Round Valley, CA
  8. 2.0 10km ENE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  9. 1.5 12km SSW of Toms Place, CA
  10. 1.9 7km NW of Round Valley, CA
  11. 1.6 16km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  12. 2.7 16km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  13. 4.0 16km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  14. 1.8 39km SSW of Qualeys Camp, NV
  15. 2.3 38km SSW of Qualeys Camp, NV

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 4.4 on 2020-02-01 — it released about 16,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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