Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist
M 2.8md
16km SW of Toms Place, CA
- When
- Magnitude
- M 2.8 (md)
- Depth
- 5.5 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Mono County, 50 km N
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2836 days ago
This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.
How big was it?
This earthquake released about 450 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.8 would have released about 32 times as much.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 34,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 24,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2.1× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 2.8 about 450 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 37.4690, -118.8175. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mono County, CA | 50 km (31 mi) | S of here | earthquakes near Mono County |
| Madera County, CA | 87 km (54 mi) | ENE of here | earthquakes near Madera County |
| Mariposa County, CA | 97 km (60 mi) | E of here | earthquakes near Mariposa County |
| Fresno County, CA | 108 km (67 mi) | NE of here | earthquakes near Fresno County |
| Esmeralda County, NV | 110 km (68 mi) | WSW of here | earthquakes near Esmeralda County |
| Tuolumne County, CA | 118 km (73 mi) | ESE of here | earthquakes near Tuolumne 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.
- 1.5 13km W of Toms Place, CA
- 1.8 16km SW of Toms Place, CA
- 2.1 18km SW of Toms Place, CA
- 2.4 29km S of Mammoth Lakes, CA
- 1.7 13km W of Toms Place, CA
- 2.1 13km W of Toms Place, CA
- 1.5 14km NW of Toms Place, CA
- 1.6 4km W of Mammoth Lakes, CA
- 1.6 19km SSW of Mammoth Lakes, CA
- 1.7 14km SE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
- 1.8 2km E of Mammoth Lakes, CA
- 1.8 11km ENE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
- 1.8 15km SW of Toms Place, CA
- 1.7 7km SSW of Wilkerson, CA
- 1.5 17km SW of Toms Place, 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 970 times the energy of this one.
From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.
On USGS
- The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
- Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
- ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one
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