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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.0md

28km SW of Wilkerson, CA

· -0.4 km deep · released about 860 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 90 kmMadera County 98 kmFresno County 99 kmTulare County 101 kmEsmeralda County 115 km
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When
Magnitude
M 3.0 (md)
Depth
-0.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 90 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2558 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 860 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 390,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 18,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 12,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 860 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 37.1295, -118.6460. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 90 km (56 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Madera County, CA 98 km (61 mi) E of here earthquakes near Madera County
Fresno County, CA 99 km (61 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Fresno County
Tulare County, CA 101 km (63 mi) N of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Esmeralda County, NV 115 km (71 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Mariposa County, CA 122 km (76 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Mariposa County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 7km W of West Bishop, CA
  2. 1.5 6km NW of West Bishop, CA
  3. 1.8 18km WSW of Wilkerson, CA
  4. 1.8 8km ESE of Wilkerson, CA
  5. 1.7 7km N of Big Pine, CA
  6. 1.8 23km SW of Toms Place, CA
  7. 1.9 18km SW of Toms Place, CA
  8. 1.6 13km SW of Toms Place, CA
  9. 1.7 3km WNW of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA
  10. 1.7 2km NNW of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA
  11. 2.3 19km SSW of Big Pine, CA
  12. 2.1 18km SSW of Big Pine, CA
  13. 2.3 19km SSW of Big Pine, CA
  14. 1.5 18km WSW of Wilkerson, CA
  15. 2.3 20km N of Independence, 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 500 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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