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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

7km NE of Wilkerson, CA

· 11 km deep · released about 7.8 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Esmeralda County 80 kmMono County 82 kmInyo 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
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Esmeralda County, 80 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3121 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 7.8 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 1,900,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 120× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.8 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 37.3225, -118.3308. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Esmeralda County, NV 80 km (50 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Mono County, CA 82 km (51 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Inyo County, CA 118 km (73 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Fresno County, CA 133 km (83 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

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

  1. 3.6 8km NNE of Round Valley, CA
  2. 1.8 20km WSW of Wilkerson, CA
  3. 1.8 20km WSW of Wilkerson, CA
  4. 1.9 8km SE of Deep Springs, CA
  5. 1.6 10km SSW of Toms Place, CA
  6. 1.6 20km WSW of Wilkerson, CA
  7. 1.6 9km NE of Bishop, CA
  8. 2.3 15km SW of Toms Place, CA
  9. 2.4 2km S of Bishop, CA
  10. 1.6 1km SW of Bishop, CA
  11. 1.6 1km WSW of Bishop, CA
  12. 2.7 2km SW of Bishop, CA
  13. 1.5 15 km SSE of Big Pine, California
  14. 1.6 32 km ESE of Big Pine, California
  15. 1.9 17km WSW of Round Valley, 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 55,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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