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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.5md

7km ENE of Wilkerson, CA

· 12 km deep · released about 190 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Esmeralda County 80 kmMono County 85 kmInyo County 115 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 2.5 (md)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Esmeralda County, 80 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2719 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 190 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 78,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 55,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4.9× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.5 about 190 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 37.2985, -118.3087. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Esmeralda County, NV 80 km (50 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Mono County, CA 85 km (53 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Inyo County, CA 115 km (71 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Tulare County, CA 126 km (78 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Fresno County, CA 134 km (83 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Fresno County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 2km WSW of Wilkerson, CA
  2. 1.7 12km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  3. 1.8 10km SW of Toms Place, CA
  4. 1.6 14km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  5. 2.8 12km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  6. 2.5 12km WNW of Round Valley, CA
  7. 2.1 2km NW of Wilkerson, CA
  8. 1.6 2km NW of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA
  9. 1.7 3km NW of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA
  10. 1.8 7km WSW of West Bishop, CA
  11. 3.4 20km NNE of Deep Springs, CA
  12. 1.9 19km NNW of Independence, CA
  13. 2.1 6km WSW of West Bishop, CA
  14. 1.6 7km WSW of West Bishop, CA
  15. 1.5 6km NE of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, 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 2,200 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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