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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.3md

5 km SE of Bishop, California

· 9.3 km deep · released about 91 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (md)
Depth
9.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 80 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 91 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 170,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 120,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 10× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 91 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 37.3305, -118.3553. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 80 km (49 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Esmeralda County, NV 81 km (50 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Inyo County, CA 120 km (75 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Fresno County, CA 132 km (82 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Fresno County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 13km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  2. 1.8 13km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  3. 1.8 21km ENE of Toms Place, CA
  4. 2.8 21km ENE of Toms Place, CA
  5. 2.3 18 km WSW of Round Valley, California
  6. 1.5 16km SW of Toms Place, CA
  7. 1.6 16km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  8. 1.7 18km SW of Toms Place, CA
  9. 1.5 2 km W of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, California
  10. 2.6 2km W of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA
  11. 2.7 15km SW of Toms Place, CA
  12. 2.2 2 km WNW of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, California
  13. 1.9 15km SW of Toms Place, CA
  14. 1.8 15km SW of Toms Place, CA
  15. 1.6 15km SW of Toms Place, CA

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 4,700 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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