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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.8md

4km E of Bishop, CA

· 4.0 km deep · released about 15 lb of TNT

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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 1.8 (md)
Depth
4.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 77 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3069 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 15 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 710,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 63× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 15 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 37.3697, -118.3442. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 77 km (48 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Esmeralda County, NV 78 km (48 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Inyo County, CA 123 km (76 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Fresno County, CA 135 km (84 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

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

  1. 2.2 6km WNW of West Bishop, CA
  2. 2.4 6km WNW of West Bishop, CA
  3. 2.1 14km W of Toms Place, CA
  4. 1.6 3km WSW of Wilkerson, CA
  5. 2.4 17km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  6. 2.0 14km SW of Toms Place, CA
  7. 2.7 14km SE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  8. 1.6 14km SE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  9. 1.5 17 km ENE of Swall Meadows, California
  10. 1.6 11km WSW of Round Valley, CA
  11. 1.6 7 km SE of Big Pine, California
  12. 1.6 13km SW of Toms Place, CA
  13. 1.6 13km SW of Toms Place, CA
  14. 1.8 4km ESE of Round Valley, CA
  15. 1.7 12km WSW 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 29,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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