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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7md

18km SSE of Bodie, CA

· 11 km deep · released about 10 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 17 kmMineral County 67 kmTuolumne County 91 kmAlpine County 98 kmMariposa County 102 kmLyon County 109 kmDouglas County 111 kmEsmeralda County 118 kmMadera 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 1.7 (md)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 17 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2852 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 10 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,100,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 95× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 10 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 38.0607, -118.9263. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 17 km (10 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Mono County
Mineral County, NV 67 km (42 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Tuolumne County, CA 91 km (57 mi) E of here earthquakes near Tuolumne County
Alpine County, CA 98 km (61 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Mariposa County, CA 102 km (63 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Mariposa County
Lyon County, NV 109 km (68 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Lyon County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 19km SE of Bodie, CA
  2. 1.8 21km SE of Bodie, CA
  3. 1.6 21km SE of Bodie, CA
  4. 2.1 21km SE of Bodie, CA
  5. 1.5 23 km E of Mono City, California
  6. 1.5 23 km E of Mono City, California
  7. 1.6 20km SE of Bodie, CA
  8. 1.9 20km SE of Bodie, CA
  9. 1.6 22 km E of Mono City, California
  10. 1.6 23 km E of Mono City, California
  11. 1.8 20km SE of Bodie, CA
  12. 2.1 19km SE of Bodie, CA
  13. 2.7 20km SE of Bodie, CA
  14. 2.3 21km SE of Bodie, CA
  15. 1.5 20 km ENE of Mono City, 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 5.6 on 2016-12-28 — it released about 760,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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