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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.9md

20km NNW of Deep Springs, CA

· 2.8 km deep · released about 21 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Esmeralda County 50 kmMono County 80 kmMineral County 113 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 1.9 (md)
Depth
2.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Esmeralda County, 50 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2561 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 21 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 710,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 500,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 45× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 21 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 37.5263, -118.1052. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Esmeralda County, NV 50 km (31 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Mono County, CA 80 km (50 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Mineral County, NV 113 km (70 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Inyo County, CA 124 km (77 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Inyo County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 6km NNW of Round Valley, CA
  2. 3.4 5km NNW of Round Valley, CA
  3. 1.5 4km NNW of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA
  4. 1.6 11km SW of West Bishop, CA
  5. 1.7 14km SW of West Bishop, CA
  6. 1.8 7km WSW of West Bishop, CA
  7. 1.8 8km S of Wilkerson, CA
  8. 1.9 7km N of Round Valley, CA
  9. 1.7 20 km SW of Silver Peak, Nevada
  10. 1.9 1km NNE of Wilkerson, CA
  11. 1.7 3km NW of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA
  12. 1.9 39 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  13. 1.5 4km NW of West Bishop, CA
  14. 2.4 8km NNE of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA
  15. 2.0 11km SSW of Wilkerson, 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 20,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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