Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist
M 1.6md
4km NE of Big Pine, CA
- When
- Magnitude
- M 1.6 (md)
- Depth
- 8.6 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Esmeralda County, 86 km NE
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3056 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.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,900,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 120× the energy of this one
- 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 37.1915, -118.2642. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Esmeralda County, NV | 86 km (53 mi) | SW of here | earthquakes near Esmeralda County |
| Mono County, CA | 97 km (60 mi) | SE of here | earthquakes near Mono County |
| Inyo County, CA | 104 km (64 mi) | NW of here | earthquakes near Inyo County |
| Tulare County, CA | 117 km (72 mi) | NNE of here | earthquakes near Tulare County |
Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.
Aftershocks so far
42 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
- 2.6 20km NNW of Deep Springs, CA
- 1.7 5km ESE of Deep Springs, CA
- 1.7 16km ENE of Big Pine, CA
- 1.5 13km NNW of Deep Springs, CA
- 1.7 10km WSW of West Bishop, CA
- 1.6 6km ESE of Deep Springs, CA
- 1.6 6km WNW of West Bishop, CA
- 1.6 3km NW of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA
- 1.7 7km SSW of Round Valley, CA
- 1.9 20km NNW of Deep Springs, CA
- 1.8 8km SE of Big Pine, CA
- 1.6 17km NNW of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA
- 2.3 26km WSW of Wilkerson, CA
- 2.0 21km SW of Big Pine, CA
- 1.7 12 km SW of West Bishop, California
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
- The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
- Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
- ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one
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