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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.1md

3km W of Bridgeport, CA

· 1.8 km deep · released about 49 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 51 kmAlpine County 62 kmTuolumne County 66 kmDouglas County 78 kmMineral County 80 kmLyon County 86 kmMariposa County 95 kmCarson City 108 kmCalaveras County 113 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.1 (md)
Depth
1.8 km below the surface
Felt
5 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Mono County, 51 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2897 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 5 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 49 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 310,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 220,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 19× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 49 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 38.2542, -119.2650. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 51 km (32 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Mono County
Alpine County, CA 62 km (38 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Tuolumne County, CA 66 km (41 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Tuolumne County
Douglas County, NV 78 km (49 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Mineral County, NV 80 km (49 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Lyon County, NV 86 km (53 mi) S of here earthquakes near Lyon County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 20km SE of Bodie, CA
  2. 1.6 22 km E of Mono City, California
  3. 1.6 23 km E of Mono City, California
  4. 1.8 20km SE of Bodie, CA
  5. 2.1 19km SE of Bodie, CA
  6. 2.7 20km SE of Bodie, CA
  7. 2.3 21km SE of Bodie, CA
  8. 1.5 20 km ENE of Mono City, California
  9. 1.5 23 km E of Mono City, California
  10. 1.8 29 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  11. 1.6 35 km NE of Mono City, California
  12. 2.6 29 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  13. 2.2 30 km SW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  14. 1.5 21km SSE of Bodie, CA
  15. 1.6 21km SE of Bodie, 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 5.6 on 2016-12-28 — it released about 150,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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