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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7md

5 km SSW of Swall Meadows, California

· 14 km deep · released about 12 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 53 kmEsmeralda County 98 kmMadera County 100 kmMariposa County 110 kmFresno County 117 kmMineral County 119 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 1.7 (md)
Depth
14 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 53 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3489 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 12 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 870,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 78× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 12 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 37.4640, -118.6687. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 53 km (33 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Esmeralda County, NV 98 km (61 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Madera County, CA 100 km (62 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Madera County
Mariposa County, CA 110 km (69 mi) E of here earthquakes near Mariposa County
Fresno County, CA 117 km (73 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Fresno County
Mineral County, NV 119 km (74 mi) S of here earthquakes near Mineral County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.7 8 km ENE of Swall Meadows, California
  2. 2.1 7 km SSW of Wilkerson, California
  3. 1.6 7 km N of Benton, California
  4. 1.9 14 km WSW of Aspen Springs, California
  5. 1.8 9 km W of Aspen Springs, California
  6. 2.3 15 km SW of Aspen Springs, California
  7. 1.6 7 km SSW of Wilkerson, California
  8. 1.7 10 km ESE of Mammoth Lakes, California
  9. 1.7 10 km ESE of Mammoth Lakes, California
  10. 2.3 10 km ESE of Mammoth Lakes, California
  11. 2.3 10 km ESE of Mammoth Lakes, California
  12. 2.1 10 km ESE of Mammoth Lakes, California
  13. 1.6 10 km ESE of Mammoth Lakes, California
  14. 2.4 10 km ESE of Mammoth Lakes, California
  15. 1.9 10 km ESE of Mammoth Lakes, 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 35,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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