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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

22km ENE of Lee Vining, CA

· 15 km deep · released about 8.1 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 10 kmMineral County 70 kmTuolumne County 96 kmMariposa County 103 kmAlpine County 106 kmEsmeralda County 112 kmLyon County 117 kmMadera County 117 kmDouglas County 119 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (md)
Depth
15 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Mono County, 10 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2792 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 8.1 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 1,300,000× 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 8.1 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 38.0028, -118.8727. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 10 km (6 mi) N of here earthquakes near Mono County
Mineral County, NV 70 km (43 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Tuolumne County, CA 96 km (59 mi) E of here earthquakes near Tuolumne County
Mariposa County, CA 103 km (64 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Mariposa County
Alpine County, CA 106 km (66 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Esmeralda County, NV 112 km (69 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda 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. 2.0 28 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  2. 1.8 29 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  3. 1.6 28 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  4. 1.9 7km WSW of Bridgeport, CA
  5. 1.8 28 km ENE of Bridgeport, California
  6. 3.9 20 km NNE of Benton, California
  7. 1.6 6km E of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  8. 1.5 29 km ENE of Bridgeport, California
  9. 1.6 12km SE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  10. 3.0 25km SE of Bodie, CA
  11. 2.1 6km SE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  12. 1.7 11km ESE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  13. 2.2 11km E of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  14. 1.8 33km E of Lee Vining, CA
  15. 1.5 30 km ENE of Bridgeport, 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 930,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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