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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.0ml

10km SW of Toms Place, CA

· 11 km deep · released about 920 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 49 kmMadera County 94 kmMariposa County 103 kmEsmeralda County 104 kmFresno County 114 kmMineral County 118 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 3.0 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 49 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2556 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 920 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 6.7 370,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 16,000× 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 920 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 37.4840, -118.7473. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 49 km (31 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Madera County, CA 94 km (58 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Madera County
Mariposa County, CA 103 km (64 mi) E of here earthquakes near Mariposa County
Esmeralda County, NV 104 km (64 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Fresno County, CA 114 km (71 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Fresno County
Mineral County, NV 118 km (74 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Mineral County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 8km N of Big Pine, CA
  2. 2.3 13km W of Toms Place, CA
  3. 1.6 13km W of Toms Place, CA
  4. 2.3 14km SE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  5. 1.7 11km WNW of Toms Place, CA
  6. 1.6 3km E of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  7. 1.8 11km WNW of Toms Place, CA
  8. 2.2 15km SE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  9. 1.8 14km W of Toms Place, CA
  10. 1.9 14km W of Toms Place, CA
  11. 2.5 14km W of Toms Place, CA
  12. 1.6 3km E of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  13. 2.0 23km SW of Toms Place, CA
  14. 1.6 7km E of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  15. 1.6 3km E of Mammoth Lakes, 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 470 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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