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M 1.8md

2 km ENE of Mesa, California

· 13 km deep · released about 15 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 63 kmEsmeralda County 87 kmMadera County 112 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.8 (md)
Depth
13 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 63 km NNW
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 15 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 710,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 63× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 15 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 37.4243, -118.5168. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 63 km (39 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Esmeralda County, NV 87 km (54 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Madera County, CA 112 km (69 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Madera County
Fresno County, CA 125 km (78 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Fresno County
Inyo County, CA 138 km (86 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Inyo County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 3 km SE of Mammoth Lakes, California
  2. 1.8 3 km SE of Mammoth Lakes, California
  3. 1.9 3 km SE of Mammoth Lakes, California
  4. 2.1 3 km SE of Mammoth Lakes, California
  5. 1.8 9 km SSW of Mammoth Lakes, California
  6. 1.5 10 km WSW of Aspen Springs, California
  7. 1.7 12 km SE of Mammoth Lakes, California
  8. 1.5 12 km SE of Mammoth Lakes, California
  9. 2.4 3 km ENE of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, California
  10. 1.8 12 km SE of Mammoth Lakes, California
  11. 1.8 11 km WSW of Aspen Springs, California
  12. 1.6 4 km SSE of Mesa, California
  13. 2.9 26 km S of Mammoth Lakes, California
  14. 1.7 26 km S of Mammoth Lakes, California
  15. 1.9 5 km WNW of Round Valley, 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 4.8 on 2016-02-16 — it released about 29,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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