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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

15 km NE of Mesa, California

· 7.3 km deep · released about 7.8 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 58 kmEsmeralda County 76 kmMineral County 109 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (md)
Depth
7.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 58 km NW
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 7.8 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 1,900,000× 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 3.0 120× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.8 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 37.5335, -118.4333. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 58 km (36 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Esmeralda County, NV 76 km (47 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Mineral County, NV 109 km (68 mi) S of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Madera County, CA 122 km (76 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Madera County
Fresno County, CA 138 km (86 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Fresno County
Inyo County, CA 141 km (88 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

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

  1. 1.6 13 km N of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, California
  2. 2.0 5 km E of Mammoth Lakes, California
  3. 1.9 7 km N of Benton, California
  4. 1.6 19 km NNW of Sunny Slopes, California
  5. 1.9 14 km SW of Aspen Springs, California
  6. 2.2 19 km SW of Aspen Springs, California
  7. 1.6 8 km ESE of Mammoth Lakes, California
  8. 2.7 8 km ENE of Swall Meadows, California
  9. 2.1 7 km SSW of Wilkerson, California
  10. 1.6 7 km N of Benton, California
  11. 1.9 14 km WSW of Aspen Springs, California
  12. 1.8 9 km W of Aspen Springs, California
  13. 1.7 7 km N of Benton, California
  14. 1.8 7 km N of Benton, California
  15. 2.3 15 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 55,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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