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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

21km SE of Bodie, CA

· 6.0 km deep · released about 7.8 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 15 kmMineral County 65 kmTuolumne County 96 kmAlpine County 103 kmMariposa County 106 kmLyon County 111 kmEsmeralda County 113 kmDouglas County 114 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (md)
Depth
6.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 15 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2840 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.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,900,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 120× the energy of this one
  4. 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 38.0552, -118.8708. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 15 km (10 mi) N of here earthquakes near Mono County
Mineral County, NV 65 km (40 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Tuolumne County, CA 96 km (60 mi) E of here earthquakes near Tuolumne County
Alpine County, CA 103 km (64 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Mariposa County, CA 106 km (66 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Mariposa County
Lyon County, NV 111 km (69 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. 2.6 2km SSE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  2. 3.0 2km S of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  3. 1.5 12 km S of Hawthorne, Nevada
  4. 1.7 29 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  5. 3.2 15km E of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  6. 1.6 19km SSE of Bodie, CA
  7. 2.1 14km NW of Toms Place, CA
  8. 2.5 40km N of Toms Place, CA
  9. 1.6 15km E of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  10. 1.5 15km E of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  11. 1.5 14km E of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  12. 1.8 38km SSW of Qualeys Camp, NV
  13. 2.3 14km E of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  14. 1.9 22 km ENE of Bridgeport, California
  15. 1.6 12km E of Mammoth Lakes, 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 970,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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