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M 2.9md

3 km ESE of Mesa, California

· 8.0 km deep · released about 630 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 65 kmEsmeralda County 87 kmMadera County 112 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 2.9 (md)
Depth
8.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 65 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3009 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 630 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 24,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 17,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.5× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.9 about 630 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 37.4112, -118.5087. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 65 km (40 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 (70 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 136 km (85 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

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

  1. 1.5 13 km WNW of Benton, California
  2. 1.5 13 km WSW of Aspen Springs, California
  3. 2.1 10 km ESE of Mammoth Lakes, California
  4. 1.8 0 km NNW of Mesa, California
  5. 2.0 4 km SW of Big Pine, California
  6. 2.1 5 km SSW of Swall Meadows, California
  7. 1.7 5 km SSW of Swall Meadows, California
  8. 1.8 4 km SE of Big Pine, California
  9. 2.4 10 km SW of Aspen Springs, California
  10. 1.6 18 km SW of Aspen Springs, California
  11. 2.3 California-Nevada border region
  12. 2.1 6 km ESE of Mammoth Lakes, California
  13. 1.6 16 km SSE of Mammoth Lakes, California
  14. 1.6 10 km SW of Aspen Springs, California
  15. 1.8 9 km SW of Aspen Springs, 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 680 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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