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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

8km N of Big Pine, CA

· 8.3 km deep · released about 9 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Esmeralda County 85 kmMono County 91 kmInyo County 110 kmTulare County 120 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
8.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Esmeralda County, 85 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3065 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 9 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 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 110× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 9 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 37.2352, -118.3052. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Esmeralda County, NV 85 km (53 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Mono County, CA 91 km (56 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Inyo County, CA 110 km (68 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Tulare County, CA 120 km (74 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Fresno County, CA 131 km (81 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

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

  1. 2.0 21km SW of Big Pine, CA
  2. 1.7 12 km SW of West Bishop, California
  3. 1.5 1km SSW of Round Valley, CA
  4. 2.0 6km ENE of Big Pine, CA
  5. 1.5 14km SW of Toms Place, CA
  6. 1.8 14km SSW of Toms Place, CA
  7. 2.2 6km WNW of West Bishop, CA
  8. 2.4 6km WNW of West Bishop, CA
  9. 1.6 3km WSW of Wilkerson, CA
  10. 2.0 14km SW of Toms Place, CA
  11. 1.6 35 km NE of Independence, California
  12. 1.5 17 km ENE of Swall Meadows, California
  13. 1.6 11km WSW of Round Valley, CA
  14. 1.6 7 km SE of Big Pine, California
  15. 1.8 4km ESE 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 48,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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