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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

5km NW of Round Valley, CA

· 5.7 km deep · released about 7.1 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 56 kmEsmeralda County 97 kmMadera County 101 kmMariposa County 113 kmFresno County 118 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 1.6 (md)
Depth
5.7 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 56 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3180 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 7.1 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 2,100,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,500,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.1 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 37.4462, -118.6448. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 56 km (35 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Esmeralda County, NV 97 km (60 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Madera County, CA 101 km (63 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Madera County
Mariposa County, CA 113 km (70 mi) E of here earthquakes near Mariposa County
Fresno County, CA 118 km (73 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Fresno County
Mineral County, NV 121 km (75 mi) S of here earthquakes near Mineral County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 10km E of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  2. 2.1 10km W of Toms Place, CA
  3. 2.3 13km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  4. 1.5 10km E of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  5. 2.2 18km N of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA
  6. 2.3 15km SW of Toms Place, CA
  7. 1.8 7km E of Round Valley, CA
  8. 1.5 17km N of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA
  9. 1.7 14km ESE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  10. 1.5 6km WSW of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  11. 1.6 2km SE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  12. 1.8 3km ESE of Round Valley, CA
  13. 2.0 9km WNW of Toms Place, CA
  14. 1.8 11km S of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  15. 2.3 12km S of Mammoth Lakes, 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 61,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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