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M 1.8md

9km E of Mammoth Lakes, CA

· 6.5 km deep · released about 13 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 32 kmMadera County 90 kmMariposa County 92 kmTuolumne County 105 kmMineral County 106 kmEsmeralda County 110 kmFresno County 119 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 1.8 (md)
Depth
6.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 32 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2944 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 13 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 1,100,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 810,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 72× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 13 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 37.6313, -118.8743. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 32 km (20 mi) S of here earthquakes near Mono County
Madera County, CA 90 km (56 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Madera County
Mariposa County, CA 92 km (57 mi) E of here earthquakes near Mariposa County
Tuolumne County, CA 105 km (65 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Tuolumne County
Mineral County, NV 106 km (66 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Esmeralda County, NV 110 km (69 mi) W of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 7km E of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  2. 1.8 14km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  3. 1.7 1km NNW of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA
  4. 1.9 13km W of Toms Place, CA
  5. 2.1 4km E of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  6. 1.6 4km E of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  7. 1.7 12km SE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  8. 1.7 18 km NW of Benton, California
  9. 1.9 41km NNE of Toms Place, CA
  10. 2.1 7km ENE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  11. 1.6 7km ENE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  12. 1.8 7km ENE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  13. 2.5 14km W of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  14. 1.6 14km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  15. 1.9 1km ESE of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, 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.

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