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M 1.5md

7 km N of Benton, California

· 5.3 km deep · released about 5.9 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 36 kmMineral County 70 kmEsmeralda County 75 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (md)
Depth
5.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 36 km W
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 5.9 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,800,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 160× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.9 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 37.8880, -118.4717. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 36 km (22 mi) E of here earthquakes near Mono County
Mineral County, NV 70 km (44 mi) S of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Esmeralda County, NV 75 km (46 mi) W of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Madera County, CA 136 km (84 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Madera County
Alpine County, CA 142 km (88 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Douglas County, NV 150 km (93 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Douglas County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 10 km W of Aspen Springs, California
  2. 2.6 10 km W of Aspen Springs, California
  3. 1.8 36 km ENE of Mono City, California
  4. 1.8 11 km W of Aspen Springs, California
  5. 1.5 12 km WNW of Aspen Springs, California
  6. 1.6 10 km W of Aspen Springs, California
  7. 2.1 8 km E of Mammoth Lakes, California
  8. 1.7 8 km E of Mammoth Lakes, California
  9. 2.1 8 km E of Mammoth Lakes, California
  10. 1.5 11 km W of Aspen Springs, California
  11. 2.2 5 km E of Mammoth Lakes, California
  12. 1.7 9 km ESE of Mammoth Lakes, California
  13. 1.6 13 km N of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, California
  14. 2.0 5 km E of Mammoth Lakes, California
  15. 1.9 7 km N of Benton, 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.

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