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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5md

30km E of Lee Vining, CA

· 5.8 km deep · released about 5.9 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 12 kmMineral County 66 kmEsmeralda County 103 kmTuolumne County 104 kmMariposa County 110 kmAlpine County 113 kmLyon County 120 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 1.5 (md)
Depth
5.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 12 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2739 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 5.9 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,800,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 160× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.9 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 37.9962, -118.7777. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 12 km (8 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Mineral County, NV 66 km (41 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Esmeralda County, NV 103 km (64 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Tuolumne County, CA 104 km (65 mi) E of here earthquakes near Tuolumne County
Mariposa County, CA 110 km (68 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Mariposa County
Alpine County, CA 113 km (70 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Alpine County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 11km ENE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  2. 1.5 29 km SW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  3. 1.7 29 km ENE of Bridgeport, California
  4. 3.0 14km NW of Toms Place, CA
  5. 1.6 31 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  6. 1.6 10 km NNW of Benton, California
  7. 1.6 22km ENE of Lee Vining, CA
  8. 1.6 14km NW of Toms Place, CA
  9. 1.5 26 km NNW of Benton, California
  10. 1.9 14km NW of Toms Place, CA
  11. 1.8 14km NW of Toms Place, CA
  12. 1.6 14km NW of Toms Place, CA
  13. 2.1 14km NW of Toms Place, CA
  14. 1.6 14km NW of Toms Place, CA
  15. 1.6 14km NW 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 5.6 on 2016-12-28 — it released about 1,300,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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