Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist
M 3.0ml
10 km WNW of Aspen Springs, California
- When
- Magnitude
- M 3.0 (ml)
- Depth
- 3.4 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Mono County, 35 km N
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3009 days ago
This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.
How big was it?
This earthquake released about 860 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.0 would have released about 32 times as much.
- Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 390,000× the energy of this one
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 18,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 12,000× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 3.0 about 860 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 37.6035, -118.8203. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mono County, CA | 35 km (22 mi) | S of here | earthquakes near Mono County |
| Madera County, CA | 93 km (58 mi) | ENE of here | earthquakes near Madera County |
| Mariposa County, CA | 96 km (60 mi) | E of here | earthquakes near Mariposa County |
| Esmeralda County, NV | 106 km (66 mi) | W of here | earthquakes near Esmeralda County |
| Mineral County, NV | 108 km (67 mi) | SSW of here | earthquakes near Mineral County |
| Tuolumne County, CA | 111 km (69 mi) | ESE of here | earthquakes near Tuolumne County |
Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.
Aftershocks so far
59 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
- 2.0 13km WNW of Toms Place, CA
- 1.8 24km WSW of Wilkerson, CA
- 1.8 25km S of Round Valley, CA
- 1.8 18km SW of Toms Place, CA
- 1.5 13km WNW of Toms Place, CA
- 1.8 40km NNE of Toms Place, CA
- 1.6 16km WSW of Toms Place, CA
- 1.6 17km SW of Toms Place, CA
- 1.5 13km WNW of Toms Place, CA
- 1.8 11km W of Toms Place, CA
- 2.1 13km SE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
- 1.5 17km SW of Toms Place, CA
- 1.8 10 km WNW of Aspen Springs, California
- 1.9 11 km S of Mammoth Lakes, California
- 1.6 14km 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.
On USGS
- The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
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- ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one
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