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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.4md

8 km S of Wilkerson, California

· 14 km deep · released about 120 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 90 kmEsmeralda County 93 kmTulare County 113 kmInyo County 114 kmMadera County 120 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 2.4 (md)
Depth
14 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 90 km NNW
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 120 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 130,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 92,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 8.2× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 120 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 37.2027, -118.4003. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 90 km (56 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Esmeralda County, NV 93 km (58 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Tulare County, CA 113 km (71 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Inyo County, CA 114 km (71 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Madera County, CA 120 km (74 mi) E of here earthquakes near Madera County
Fresno County, CA 122 km (76 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

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

  1. 1.9 12km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  2. 1.6 9 km SW of Big Pine, California
  3. 1.5 16km SW of Toms Place, CA
  4. 2.0 16km SW of Toms Place, CA
  5. 2.5 11 km SW of Aspen Springs, California
  6. 1.7 12 km SW of Aspen Springs, California
  7. 1.8 15km SW of Toms Place, CA
  8. 1.6 14 km SW of Aspen Springs, California
  9. 1.7 15 km SW of Aspen Springs, California
  10. 2.0 15 km SW of Aspen Springs, California
  11. 2.2 33km ESE of Big Pine, CA
  12. 1.5 16km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  13. 1.6 15km SW of Toms Place, CA
  14. 1.8 12 km SW of Aspen Springs, California
  15. 2.4 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 3,700 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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